Moving files/folders in Finder, a headache

10.8 and 10.9 become a headache copying/moving files/folders between disks.
After download selected images to my Imac from cards I used to move all of them to a local network backup disk (attached to a linux OS)
I don't do this anymore from a year ago: annoying warnings like "the file ... is in use" (not in use, even had been downloaded) stopped move; repeated procedure with the rest of the files included the 'used' one, over and over again and finally, after 12 times or so all files had moved. 100 files to move, stop, 80 files to move, stop, 60 files.......
Same problem moving files between disks attached to the same iMac.
'You have to provide an admin password...." -> Continue Password set and again 'File ... is in use' (not in use, it is just backup file)
Reseting the Mac. Worse
.'You have to provide an admin password...." No 'Continue' option, just only 'Ok' that will do.... nothing.
My solution: Terminal: sudo mv source target
I guess Finder has been tought to make life easier, isn't it?

According to reports, if the filing protocol is SMB, you can sometimes work around the problem by forcing a CIFS connection instead. To do that, first disconnect from the file server, then select
Go ▹ Connect to Server
from the Finder menu bar, or press the key combination command-K. Then enter
cifs://server-address
in the dialog that opens, where server-address is the IP address or domain name of the server.
Some other ideas for solving or working around the problem can be found in this thread. I haven't tested any of them.

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