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A really odd question here - I have been doing some spring cleaning and archiving old work. Halfway through the task, suddenly every folder is copying rather than moving. I have double checked and both the folders are in the same location but every time I attempt a move it copies instead.
I have tried making some new dummy folders and items are moving as I would expect, it is just these existing folders seem to want to copy.
Source folder: /Users/user_name/Desktop
Destination folder: /Users/user_name/Desktop
But it insists on copying - and started to do it halfway through the task - is there a setting somewhere I can change?????
I recommend changing the destination folder,then moving it to /Users/user_name/Desktop and you should be fine.
Wow that was a long sentence.
I have tried that - it seems the permissions have gone to pot.
But it does appear that the original source backup DVDs were ones created by an external IT bod after we had a system failure - I bet he copied them on a PC and that has somehow caused the problem - just an incompatibility with the Mac. All the previous files were copied from DVDs originally created on my Mac and they behaved as I would expect.
G. Reat.
Are you logged in as that user or an admin? Check the folder permissions - perhaps you have read but not write permissions for that user folder?
I am logged on as a user, but I have only ever been logged on as me. I guess if the IT bod was logged on as an administrator...