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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 1063101" data-attributes="member: 56231">First answer - open the folder on the dvd, and Get Info on the files therein. As long as there aren't literally hundreds of them, you can probably Select All (Cmd-A), R-click on the first in the list, and Get Info. This will open a lot of mini windows.Warning! Doing this with too many files at once may cause the Mac to crash, because the RAM and processor can't cope. I'd suggest no more than 20 files at a time.If you see the Locked button checked, uncheck it and close the Info window. If none of the files is locked, that issue is eliminated.Second - Option-Drag duplicates to the new location. OS X usually does that anyway, but I know from experience that when the drag-and-drop hasn't worked, the Option-drag has. I can't comment knowledgeably about Option-drag removing the original from its location. Is there another, unwanted file you can try the action with?Something else from your initial post - as far as I'm aware, Copy-Paste from a selected file only copies the name, not the file contents.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 1063101, member: 56231"] First answer - open the folder on the dvd, and Get Info on the files therein. As long as there aren't literally hundreds of them, you can probably Select All (Cmd-A), R-click on the first in the list, and Get Info. This will open a lot of mini windows. [B]Warning[/B]! Doing this with too many files at once may cause the Mac to crash, because the RAM and processor can't cope. I'd suggest no more than 20 files at a time. If you see the Locked button checked, uncheck it and close the Info window. If none of the files is locked, that issue is eliminated. Second - Option-Drag duplicates to the new location. OS X usually does that anyway, but I know from experience that when the drag-and-drop hasn't worked, the Option-drag has. I can't comment knowledgeably about Option-drag removing the original from its location. Is there another, unwanted file you can try the action with? Something else from your initial post - as far as I'm aware, Copy-Paste from a selected file only copies the name, not the file contents. [/QUOTE]

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