Problems copying files in Lion?

Here is a solution.... it is in spanish but you get the picture... 🙂

http://blog.engeneral.net/informatica/osxfuse-montar-discos-ntfs-en-os-x-lion

Just got a iMAC and have the exact same issues mentioned here with files going invisible when being copied over the network and non-support for NTFS format. Have installed OSXFuse and MACFuse and it does not help.

Does anyone know if APPLE has come with an official solution yet?

I have the same problem.

I have MBP 2010, 750GB HD, 15 inch screen, 8GB Ram

I upgraded from 10.6 to 10.7.2 Lion clean install. There is nothing installed on this macbook except for Skype. Before I did that I backed up important files, ms office dmg to a Iomega 1TB USB HD that's mac formatted.

I have about 400gb of files I want to transfer from my USB drive back to my mbp, but I can't drag drop, I can't copy/paste, I can't CMD-C, CMD-V

I've tried resetting my keychain access, relaunching finder, putting mbp to sleep then awakening, I repaired all the permissions on both the USB drive AND my mbp HD using disk utility. Nothing works.

Any help is appreciated..... this really is aggrivating.

I just reinstalled OS X Lion 10.7.2 and the problem disappeared. Pretty crappy solution but it finally works.

Im getting all fed up with Lion... Finder has serious issues that happens on File transfer. no matter from what to where i transfer from and to.

Sometimes it stops at the end of the status-bar and stays there with 5 seconds left. Ok i force-eject the disc which im tranfering som files from. That works but the status bare remain. Cannot eject the portable im transfering to because "Its in use"

Relaunching Finder WILL not work. It closes but never restarts again.

The only solution is to reboot my mac. This happens frequently and i have been through 2 fresh installs already but the problem persists.

Is there any command i can use to force start Finder?

Apple, get a effin grip...

I have an iMac running the latest version of Lion. My iTunes library continues to grow so I'm trying to back it up and copy from my external USB media drive (where my libracy is), to a new 4 TB external USB drive. Both drives are formatted in MAC OS Journaled. I'm trying to "drag and drop" the library to the new drive. It copies for a while and then the "copying" prompt just freezes. Not more files moving. I can't even stop it, I have to force shutdown the machine. I've tried this multiple times (always doing a disk utility check on both drives when I start up again - more time wasted), and still have the issue. I've also tried grabbing a few folers at a time to copy and still have the same issue. There is no set point at which this occurs. Sometimes it will let me copy 50gb fine. An sometimes it will freeze after 5gb.

I've turned off the "sleep" feature and "put drives to sleep..." feature in the preferences. I do not run any applications while I'm trying to copy either. This is extremely frustrating. I love my Mac, but have never had a problem copying between drives on a PC.

Can anyone help?

I replaced a dead PC with a Mac Mini with Lion pre-installed which arrived 5 days ago. I updated to the latest patches and then copied some photos from an external NTFS drive and got the ghost file problem BEFORE installing any other software. I have hundreds of ghost files and directories and I'm also having issues syncing my iPod Classic photos despite deleteing the iPod Photo Cache.

I bought the Apple machine to work more smoothly with the two iPhone 4S, iPod Touch, iPod Classic and Apple TV than Windows but so far anything but!

I have none of these issues on the bootcamped Windows 7 install. Please fix this copy issues soon Apple.

In the meantime, is there a quick and easy way to delete ghost files?

Restarting your mac can clear the Ghosts files.

You probably need to ask Genius at the Apple Store to let them know about the issue. Also would be good to show theis thread and hope they will report this directly to the right people at Apple.

I use to have this issue, but not sure why its ok now...😕

The ghost files are still there after a reboot. They can be deleted but have to check folders first so a pain to manually clean.

There is no Apple Stote in Edinburgh despite it being one of the wealthiest European cities. Glasgow has 2 but they're over an hour drive.

If the drives you are using are USB 3.0 (backward compatible to 2.0) that may be the problem. See this discussion:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2748782?start=120&tstart=0

I had a problem with copying files from an external USB drive (not an NTFS drive) to my iMac. The freeze would occur with even a modest number of files and sizes, say 150 MB total. Cmd-Option-Esc would not respond to allow me to relaunch finder. The only way out was holding down the power button to restart.

My issue appears to be with Intego VirusBarrier X6. Disabling the real time scanner solved my problem and I was now able to successfully copy 1500 files totally 10 GB from the USB drive to the iMac.

I used to have file copying issues on my MacBook. They went away post a rebuild. Whilst many things could be different pre and post rebuild, one noticable difference is I didn't put AV back on (I was using McAfee). I also never had the issue on my Mac Mini, which never had AV on.

I wonder how many others are running AV?

Can you see the file by looking in Terminal? Or is the file deleted?

Can't believe I'm reading all this. Thought I was doing something stupid as a brand newbie to Mac. Found the solution - I'll re-download the file to my old PC and copy it from there .... not impressed!!!!

Well, I've managed to copy a load of files off another drive with no issues so thought all was fine. I have a camera I use on my bicycle to record my journeys to/from work and I hadn't used it since getting the Mac for various reasons. I used it today and when I got home, tried to view the data. The camera uses a micro SD card to store data and has a mini-USB socket so I plugged it into the Mac and a drive appeared and I could see the AVI files (they even thumbnails). They wouldn't play in QuickTime at all via the connected USB cable (black screen, no sound) and when I tried to copy them to the Mac desktop, they failed with various weird error messages.

I used boot camp to reboot to Windows 7 on the Mac and they played fine on the PC though seemed to stop randomly part of the way through on occasions. This never happened on my 5 year old PC (core 2 quad core Intel but an older model) but a brand new Mac mini i5 with 8Gb memory can't play?

I copied the files to the Windows 7 desktop, ran the disk check and repair utilities against the memory card before copying via the cable (no errors).

When I rebooted back to OS X, I could play the files perfectly from the NTFS formatted disc.

World's most advanced operating system? Lacking basic functionality more like!

The other thing that really annoys me aout the Mac is my Logitech fusion webcam works perfectly on the Mac mini in Windows 7, great images but when I reboot to OS X it's like I'm in a dark room using a candle for illumination, Bring your own accessories - as long as you've paid 40% more for the Mac approved version.

Roll on Mountain Lion if it fixes this mismash of an operationg system.

Sorry for the rant but copying files is basic....