File could not be moved to the selected destination

When moving a group of files to a different folder, most moved fine. For one I got a message "There was an error copying files to the destination you selected. The following files could not be copied." and "File could not be moved to the selected desination. (1)".
Having been a programmer I know that writing a really useful error message, as opposed to one like this that gives you no useful information at all for solving the problem, is not that hard. In fact, it's just basic sound programming practice. Yet I've encountered error messages like this more than once in Adobe products.
Now, the real question is what is this telling me and how do I go about fixing it? The file I was copying is in the original folder just like the other files I selected. The destination folder exists--the other files were moved into it. There is no duplicate of the file in the destination folder. The file is not lost because I can export it. The help file has no information. What else can I check?
(Yes, I know that a LR workflow is not built around folders. But sometimes you just need to move a photo.)

What OS/version are you running?  External disk, network disk?
This is almost always a permissions / ACL problem.  Happens most of the time with newer windows os like Vista and even worse with Win7.  They've changed the way "permissions" are handled in both OS's to something more complicated.  Not only do you have to have read/write access, but you must "take ownership" of those folders (and everything below them) to be able to use them properly.
Cheers!

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