Problems copying files in Lion?

I have the same issues, tried to copy and paste from my Time Capsule, taking forever and seems to just hang also major slow problems burning DVD's

Hi, I've got the same issue than chrisjc with my 3 Macbookpro and my iMac...
I can't copy files on my external harddrives.
Waiting for Apple Solution !

I have the same issue. I try to copy video files from my Imac to USB drive and most of the time they end up as ghost files. I can see them though, but when I try to open them I've got message telling me that the file is used by mac OS X and can't be open. On the other hand, when I try to copy a file from the USB HD to the mac, the copy process seems to work normally, but when finished, the file is invisible, vanished!

To my opinion, it seems to be a serious bug as this situation is reported againand again on many forums

Got the same problem:(

Only happens when trying to copy by draging or using keyboard shortcuts. If copying through the application - Aperture or photojunction, or saving from photoshop then it works fine...

But right now my whole workflow is broken !!!!

How can something as simple as copying files not wrk????

Copying files from one machine to another via wifi is super slow. Apple pls fix all these issue. I also posted up that copyig music to my iTunes have greyed out on the playlist but nothing is copying. It takes 2 or 3 times of different music and it finally registers and copies all three albums finally. But it happens often...it could be the same issue as described on this thread - that my iTunes library is lcoated on an external drive. (fw800)

I have exactly the same problem, when I try to copy files to and from my hdd , everything seems to be ok, but in the end of the transfer there is no file..

Same problem here.

Running on macbook, macbook pro and Mac Pro, and the problem is consistent on all machines.

90% of the time, the copy will fail.

Working, as Chrisjc suggested, with the terminal is a workaround, and if trying to copy between computers on a network, i suggest enabling ssh and using a program like Cyberduck, to manage filetransfers, via sftp.

This is so far one of the biggest blunders from Apple in a long time.

How can an operating system, on revision 10.7 display so many problems with something as simple as file copy?

my 5 cent!

Thomas

Me sucede lo mismo, mi carpeta de iTunes Music no se copio completamente desde mi respaldo de Time Machine. Si lo intento hacer manual me envia un error de escritura en el disco Macinstosh, de ahi en fuera todo funciona perfecto.
Alguna orientacion?

You're right Thomas! I've never seen something alike with a new apple operating system. Sometimes some small glitches, but never major issues such as this.

I feel just as if I have migrated to Vista!

Yes, I'll add myself to the people having this problem. My husband and I have a 1TB hard drive with movies connected to our PS3, and the other day I we wanted to add some more movies, and delete a folder, and we couldn't do either thing.

He tried to do it first, with his MacBook Pro and fresh Lion install, and couldn't do it. Then, I tried to do it with my MacBook Pro with my fresh Lion install, and guess what, I couldn't do it either. I did manage to get the file we wanted to delete into my trashbin though, but then I realized that he wanted to sve the files on that folder, so I tried to get the file back on the hard drive, but it wouldn't get out of the trash bin, and then I tried to get the file on my desktop, and it didn't budge either.

What's this all about???? I hope Apple fixes this SOON!!

For anyone having problems in finder, go to ~/library/preferences or search for anything like:

com.apple.finder.plist

and trash them, log out and back in.

That should help!

hi coocooforcocoapuffs,

not working still!!!

I just had the same issue. A file copy from an external USB drive seems to complete successfully but the file disappears immediately from the target location. Using cp in the terminal works correctly.

I've had the same issue as well in at least three different cases:

- copying a file from a USB drive to the Finder desktop;

- alt-dragging the proxy icon in the title bar of a document opened in Preview to the desktop;

- copying a file from a local disk to a network disk.

In one of the cases (the first) I've been able to copy the file using Path Finder instead of the Finder app.

In the second case I've managed to "duplicate" the file and saving the new "version" to the desktop.

But, of course, it's not really acceptable to have a bug like that.

Hi guys.

You need to relaunch the finder

Copy this into terminal to relaunch finder:

killall Finder && open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app

Worked perfectly for me and other people. I hope it helps.