Folders/files are copied when they are dragged to be moved

This looks like an addressing issue. Does the disk check out ok?

Tom

gshock80 wrote:

I noticed a strange thing i am able to drag and drop the files of the folder elsewhere without being copied, but folders within the main folder are still copied when moved to another location.

What do you mean by "main folder" & "another location"? It is very hard to help you resolve this without knowing more than the info you have provided so far. Can you at least tell us if by "main folder" you mean your user account's home folder, & if you are dragging things between folders in your home folder or from some other top level folder (like System or Library) into a subfolder in your home folder?

Despite its name, the "Reset Home Folder Permissions and ACLs" tool only resets ACLs on the home folder itself and its main subfolders (Documents, Desktop, etc). It does not change any ACLs on contained user files and folders, and such ACLs don't show up in Get Info either. An "everyone deny delete" ACL could cause the observed behavior. To examine permissions more closely, including checking for ACLs and file flags, I would try the following. This is for diagnosis only - it will not change anything:

Open Terminal (in your Utilities folder), and copy-paste the following line into the Terminal window, followed by typing a single space. Do not press <return> yet:

ls -ldeO@

Open a Finder window that shows the "restricted" folder, drag that folder icon into the Terminal window, click inside the Terminal window, and type <return>.

Copy the command and the response from Terminal, and post it back here.

Guessing wildly . . .

Is there anything else in the folder pertaining to the mp3 song

that might be metadata - as if component parts required by

the file's structure - and can't be separated. Can you play

the solitary mp3 in iTunes?

gshock80 wrote:

The main folder i am talking about is a mp3 folder with sub-folders.

Is this folder in your home folder?

Those are very odd folder names. I don't think the folder under Music could have been typed in as ":::::Schallplatten" - does it look instead like "/////Schallplatten" in the Finder? The enclosed subfolder has a name with a lot of punctuation as well, but I guess it is legal.

You had said earlier that no other folder besides this one was affected, correct? If so, I would first make sure that everything is safely backed up somewhere, and then I would try the following:

Again open Terminal and copy-paste the following line into the Terminal window, again followed by typing a single space. Do not press <return> yet:

chmod -RN

Then as before, open a Finder window that shows the "restricted" folder, drag that folder icon into the Terminal window, click inside the Terminal window, and type <return>.

If there were no error messages, can you now move those items freely within the home folder?