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Cannot copy content folders to external drives?!? Help!
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<blockquote data-quote="SFDesigns" data-source="post: 1044134" data-attributes="member: 152692"><p>I work from both home and an office and basically all over. I recently just bought a brand new iMac for my home office <em>(which I am totally in love with)</em> and I am having some trouble with using portable USB & external HDs in order to transport my files.I had an old Powerbook G4 before this and never ran into this issue. </p><p></p><p>When I try to move a folder from my iMac to any external drive it gives me a message saying that I cannot copy the folder because a folder by that name already exists... when there is no folder by the same name at all! I tried changing the name of the folder, and I still get the same error with the different name?!?! I thought maybe it was just that one folder but no it happens with ALL of them?!?!</p><p></p><p>I am have tried everything I could think of to NO avail <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Embarrassed.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":[" title="Embarrassed :[" data-shortname=":[" /></p><p></p><p>Does anyone have any ideas, or suggestions? I really need to be able to move folders to and from these drives for my job. ANY help is appreciated. </p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SFDesigns, post: 1044134, member: 152692"] I work from both home and an office and basically all over. I recently just bought a brand new iMac for my home office [I](which I am totally in love with)[/I] and I am having some trouble with using portable USB & external HDs in order to transport my files.I had an old Powerbook G4 before this and never ran into this issue. When I try to move a folder from my iMac to any external drive it gives me a message saying that I cannot copy the folder because a folder by that name already exists... when there is no folder by the same name at all! I tried changing the name of the folder, and I still get the same error with the different name?!?! I thought maybe it was just that one folder but no it happens with ALL of them?!?! I am have tried everything I could think of to NO avail :[ Does anyone have any ideas, or suggestions? I really need to be able to move folders to and from these drives for my job. ANY help is appreciated. Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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