Operation Could Not Be Completed Because An Unexpected Error Occured (Error Code -50)

Hi, I'm trying to copy files to my external drive. (3TB - Formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) and I keep getting this error.  I have been looking it up on Google and in the forums and it seems the common problem is that the drive is formatted Fat32, which mine is not.  The files I'm moving are between 1-3 GB each.  This was all working fine until yesterday, and now I can't get it to work.  I recently deleted some music files from the drive, but the trash has been emptied and is clean as far as I can see.  I can move things off of this drive or access them on the drive just fine, I am just not able to add new files, but there is plenty of room to do so - (2.75 TB of free space.)
Any help would be appreciated.

Try partitioning the drive. If you can't do that either, it's malfunctioning. Try another cable. Failing that, you may be able to salvage the drive mechanism by removing it from the enclosure and installing it in another one.

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