Can't copy files to 2nd internal disk...sometimes

[Tyrannocaster]

Here's something I don't understand; I can't copy a certain file from my USB drive to my second internal hard drive, but I've done this many times before with no problem. This is not the first time this has happened, and in this instance I solved it the same way I did before: I copied it with Double Commander, which had no trouble doing it. Presumably, I could have copied it in the terminal, too.

But what is causing this? AFAIK, the permissions on both disks are fine, but sometimes a file just won't let me drag it over to the hard drive. I can copy it to my system disk, though.

Sorry to bother you with such a tedious problem, but I haven't been able to figure this out on my own.

EDIT: Just had something similar happen, but this time I was trying to move a file from one directory on the second hard drive to another directory on the same drive. I was using the regular file manager, which normally does not cause me problems like this. It wouldn't let me do it, but I was able to do it from inside Double Commander. I checked and the permissions on the file said anybody could do anything with the file.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Tyrannocaster,

I can only think of if the files that cannot be moved have been extracted from compression or archives on one of the drives ?
You can either extract to the drive you want, or use sudo to copy or move them.

[Tyrannocaster]

Hello Tyrannocaster,

I can only think of if the files that cannot be moved have been extracted from compression or archives on one of the drives ?
You can either extract to the drive you want, or use sudo to copy or move them.

The first file I tried to copy was just some Firefox bookmarks (an html file, in other words) that I had on another computer and I copied to the flash drive so I could then copy it to this Linux machine. The other one was a folder of files which I had extracted to my local second drive, but I wanted to put them in a different folder on the same drive. It seems like both of these should be pretty trouble-free transfers...at least it seems that way to me, LOL.

[bitsnpcs]

Have you tried right clicking the destination folder and selecting "Open as Administrator", then copy/paste the files ?
To check the permissions of the destination folder (directory).

[Tyrannocaster]

Have you tried right clicking the destination folder and selecting "Open as Administrator", then copy/paste the files ?
To check the permissions of the destination folder (directory).

Sorry about the late reply - I just saw this. No, I haven't tried that, but I will. Thanks!

EDIT: I don't have that option when I right click on a folder. All I have is "Open". According to the Properties tab, all the folders on that disk can be accessed, written to, or whatever, by "anyone".

[bitsnpcs]

Hello,
I am not sure, am out of ideas at the moment, if I think of anything else you could try I'll add in a reply.
On my folders I have the option to open any folder as administrator in the right click context menu.
For permissions it says owner bitsnpcs, read and write permission, the only others allowed access are members of the group named bitsnpcs, and they have read only access.