I'm having trouble transfering files without copying them.

I have a project file that I'm using on my desktop and several sub folders. I'm trying to move groups of them all into one folder and the last folder wont let me transfer without copying. I'm not sure what all information would help get this question answered. I'm on an iMac Mac OS X Version 10.6.8, 3.33 GHz Intel core 2 Duo, 8GB memory. I have about 800GB free on the drive. The content is all video files and I've tried moving them all at once, one at a time, cut and paste, window to window and within the same window. I'm out of ideas. Not a crippling problem but unnecessarily time consuming. Any help would be appreciated, please and thank you.

Hi zpat,
welcome to macbook forum.
Did you follow the procedure properly from here :
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
And for setting your macbook so it can connect to wireless as eMac:
Turn on your macbook airport on the top right menu bar corner and select your wireless access point name, and enter your password if it asked for it.
or try this: At eMac go to system preference > Network > show: airport > and click TCP/IP tab and set your macbook similar to that setting (Using DHCP), if it is not using DHCP, add the ip address manually by change the last ip digit with increment of 1.
Good Luck.

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