Can't copy files to network drive

I have a network drive attached to my Airport Extreme partitioned into 'Network Drive' and 'Network Backup' partitions. I successfully backup wirelessly to Network Backup. I'm sure I have files currently in the Network Drive partition but I can't see them when I open the partition in Finder. I have a folder with files that I want to copy from a local drive to Network Backup. However, after I drop the folder onto Network Backup, I get the following series of dialogs.
Please advise.
TIA,
David

Through the magic of rebooting, this is now working. Still curious what might have been the root problem here.....

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