Problem moving files

I'm pretty experienced using this product so yes I do know how to move files. Now I'm not sure if this is an OS (Windows 7 Home Premium) issue or a LR3.5 problem (Or the one thing you never rule out, maybe I did something dumb). In any case I decided today was the day to move a some images around and cleanup those rejects. But for some reason I cannot move files I get a "Error while moving files" dialog box with the message "File could not be moved to selected destination" If I try to delete a file it tells me it cannot move selected file(s) to the recycle bin.

Because it was all of the photos I began to suspect the OS. And yes Hall you are correct.
I recently moved from an Win XP Pro computer to one of these newfangled multithreaded 64-bit Win7 machines. I hadn't noticed the permissioning issue until this weekend because LR had no problem with imports or 'developing' photos. It wasn't until I tried to cleanup the trash I left behind on a bunch of projects when I ran into this issue. I thought by making my log-in the administrator everything would be find but no, I had to change pemissions under the security tab for that drive.

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So now that's two of us. Hopefully, someone has an answer.

Suddenly I have problems moving files to the trash... get a dialog saying Finder wants to make changes and I must provide the password... Any explanation or ideas how I can get this to stop?

Suddenly I have problems moving files to the trash... get a dialog saying Finder wants to make changes and I must provide the password... Any explanation or ideas how I can get this to stop?

Please take these steps if you're prompted for a password when moving items in your home folder to the Trash.
1. Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/.Trash
2. Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Show Info
from the contextual menu.* An Info dialog should open.
3. The dialog should show "You can read and write" in the Sharing & Permissions section. If that's not what it shows, click the padlock icon in the lower right corner of the window and enter your password when prompted. Use the plus- and minus-sign buttons to give yourself Read & Write access and "everyone" No Access. Delete any other entries in the access list.
4. In the General section, uncheck the box marked Locked if it's checked.
5. From the action menu (gear icon) at the bottom of the dialog, select Apply to enclosed items and confirm.
6. Close the Info window and test.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.

Problems moving files around in finder

Does anyone else have the same problem I do when moving files around in finder. It almost always says you do not have sufficient access privileges and each time I have to go to the destination folder info box and change access permissions. It is now getting really annoying. At work I can not copy files off my laptop to the network as again it says I do not have permission though if I log on from a machine using tiger I can move the files easily. Moving files to my Lacie drive causes the same problem. If anyone out there has and easy fix or explanation I would be grateful

I decided to go the long way and move everything where I wanted it to be. I moved everything around in Bridge, I then synchronized the folder to reflect how it should. So far so good!
Thank you all for your help and interest, I really appreciate everything!
I do have one more question now, I will also start a new thread to see what else I can get, but again thank you!
I have syncroniced the folder after making the changes, and due to the problem I was having last time I did it again just to double check. It said there were over2k photos missing so I clicked sync, let it do its thing. And just to tripple check I ran it again and it is saying the same thing, missing over 2k photos. What does this mean?

Problem Moving Files to External Hard Drive

I am trying to move two large video files and one large iMovie file onto a WD Passport external hardrive. I have no problem moving most files but with these three I get an unspecified error message part way through the copying process. All three of these files are uncorrupted. Anyone know why I might be recieving this message when copying these three files and/or how I can rectify this problem?

Sounds like your external hard disk is formatted in FAT32 which has a 4GB file size limit.
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Problems moving files from old start-up following upgrade prep :(

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E.g. moving them from folder to folder does a copy rather than a move, and more often than not needs a password.
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1- Open iTunes preferences and select the Advanced tab. Change the location of your iTunes music folder to a location on your new drive. Also select the options "Keep iTunes music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library". Close the preferences dialog.
2- On the iTunes menu, select Advanced/Consolidate Library. This will gather all your media and copy it to the new location (the folder you designated in step 1).
3- After the consolidation is complete, verify that your music still plays, and check "Get Info" on some items to verify that iTunes is looking at the new location.
4- Optional. Delete the original files on your external drive. Do this only if you are certain that everything copied over to the new drive.
5- Optional. Close iTunes and locate your "iTunes Library.itl" file. This is typically in your iTunes folder, which may be on your computer's drive and not the external drive. Move this file to somewhere on your new external drive. Next, hold the Shift key as you launch iTunes and you'll be prompted to "Create Library" or "Choose Library". Select "Choose Library" and navigate to where you put the "iTunes Library.itl" file. This is a one-time step that tells iTunes where to boot the library from.

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I updated the location in iTunes after moving the files.
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Hi,
is it possible that the HD was configured as a 'Dynamic Disk' when created in Windows ?
Macs do have problems with these kind of HDs.
See here for informations about Dynamic Disks: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B308424&x=9&y=12
and this on How-To convert back to Basic Disks (which Macs can use): http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B309044&x=15&y=14
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Problem - Moving Files, Now Won't Stop

I started moving some folders or files, to another location. But then asked the process to stop. Now Mac OS shows me a window with "Stopping..." which had been running for days, without stopping.
Is there any way I can resolve this? I have put my Mac to sleep since this started, and have not shut down the machine.
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Hi, I have the same problem, when this happen mouse works just with right mouse, noting more, then I have to restart computer to make it work again, even if I disconnet it and connect again doesn´t help. When I use it on my MacBook never happen, so, I think sould be a conflict with iMac?
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latest Lion version

I am working in LR 5.7. I am having problems moving files and folders from my internal Mac drive to an external drive.

My process is to drag files or folders from one location to another. Sometimes it works, but it takes a VERY long time. Sometimes it does not work. For example, I tried to move a folder with 329 images. LR processed for 13 hours and moved 58 images; then it stopped and gave the message "…error copying files to the destination you selected. The following files could not be copied." Then it noted the files not copied. Does this look like a LR problem? A hardware problem? Any suggestions on how to fix would be appreciated.

Jim has a very good suggestion. There are many factors at work here:
1) How are you connecting the external drive to the computer?
2) How big are files (329 x 1MB is not the same as 329 x 25MB)?
3) What is your computer specification?
4) Do you have any power saving settings on (in particular something that would send the computer/hard drives to sleep)?

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Hello,
I recently changed from LR3 to 5.2 and have a problem I hope someone can help with.
I have a lot of pictures taken on a trip and have created somenew folders within the original folder to place them into categories. When I drag files from the main folder into one of the new ones Lightroom creates a new file in the new folder , but also leaves one in the original one. If I then delete the file from the original folder LR deletes it from the new one as well.
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Further Update: If I open Adobe Bridge I can move the files around as I please, so I guess I can use this as a workaround. (Couldn't do that in Windows Explorer as you can't view DNG files there). I'd still be grateful if anyone can shed light on this. I'll investigate further tomorrow and post again if I find an answer.
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[SOLVED] xfce4 / Thunar problems moving files between folders

In XFCE4 I open THUNAR file manager, I am browsing DOCUMENTS. If I move one file from DOCUMENTS, to ../PICTURES (by dragging it),
it will move it. However, when I now browse PICTURES, I don't see the file I moved. Unless I click the REFRESH Icon in Thunar.
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[UPDATE:] Solved after upgrading thunar (1.6.6-2 -> 1.6.7-1)
Last edited by Kilzool (2015-04-21 11:16:50)

You should report this at the upstream bug tracker. The Xfce developers are likely not reading this forum.
I could reproduce this bug with these steps:
1. Open two Thunar windows (Documents and Pictures folder)
2. Move a file from one folder to the other by using drag'n'drop
The result is that the file is moved but it is still shown in Thunar until a manual refresh.
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Problem moving files using applescript/folder action setup.

I'm wanting files to move to certain folders depending on what the first letter of the file name. Here is what I have so far. If the file starts with TF715SH it should move to Serenity:Color Images for Monthly:T
property dialog_timeout : 30 -- set the amount of time before dialogs auto-answer.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
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                end if
                if this_item starts with "N" then
                    move this_item to "Serenity:Color Images for Monthly:N:" with replacing
                end if
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                    move this_item to "Serenity:Color Images for Monthly:T:" with replacing
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Hi,
Because the class of this_item is a alias wich contains the full path of the file :
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if (name of this_item) starts with "M" then
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Here's another way to do this :
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
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Sudden Problems moving files on External HD

I have a Seagate Goflex 1TB external harddrive that I've been using for a few weeks. Suddenly, tonight the hd stopped letting me move files with the hd or to or from my macbook. I can still delete files though. It's been working fine since I got it and formatted it to some format that works with both Windows and Macs. Now it's reading that it's formatted as Windows NT Filesystem. I don't know if it's related, but it happened after I altered some .cdr files on the hd to open automatically w vlc player instead of Disk Image Mounter. Is there anyway to restore full accessibility to the hd without deleting everything since I can't move or copy anything from the drive right now. Thanks in advance! I appreciate the help.

David, have you tried Disk Utility to verify that drive/partition?
Your best bet is DiskWarrior...
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
But others that may work…
Drive Genius 2…
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius.php
TechTool Pro 4…
http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=83
Data Rescue II...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
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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)
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Same problem moving files between disks attached to the same iMac.
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Reseting the Mac. Worse
.'You have to provide an admin password...." No 'Continue' option, just only 'Ok' that will do.... nothing.
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Anybody having problems moving files in OSX Lion? I tried to move some files from my Downloads folder to a USB Flash Drive and it looked like the file moved successfully but the file doesn't exist in either my USB Flash Drive nor my Downloads folder. The files just disappeared.
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Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
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chmod -R -N ~
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sudo !!
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Next, boot from your recovery partition by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
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