One or more busy items cannot be changed

I've dragged songs out of iTunes to a folder on the desktop, dragging this folder to my external HD the message "the item "..." contains one or more busy items that cannot be changed" comes up. The permissions for this folder are read and write so not sure what else to do. I've done this before and had no problems...

I finally sorted out a similar problem.
Discover which files are involved by copying the *contents* of the source folder to a destination.
The offending folder (or folders) should display by name. If the item is a file, the file name should display. You can drill down within a folder by the same process: copy the contents (not the entire folder) to a destination, to find the offending folder or item.
I ran across and old (2002) posting which mentioned file type as preventing deletion:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020920055805577
I found an old application which can display file creator and type on OS X:
http://www.frederikseiffert.de/filetype/
How old is it? The System Requirements are:
"FileType runs on Mac OS X v10.0 or later and on Mac OS 8.6 or later with CarbonLib 1.3."
It runs on 10.4. Haven't tested anything later.
I discovered that the file types on the offending files were "brok". It so happens they were all tiffs, so I changed them to "TIFF". I still got a message about needing to enter an admin user and password, but the copy then worked.

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