<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Trash the DS_store file before doing so. See how that works.<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 10/27/09, Victoria L. Herring <i><VLH@HerringLaw.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br></blockquote>From: Victoria L. Herring <VLH@HerringLaw.com><br>Subject: [DM-MUG] DSStore?<br>To: "MUG Des Moines" <dmmug@dmmug.org><br>Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 12:50 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I'm trying to click and drag a folder [several, really] to an <br>external drive and when I do so it stops<br><br>"The operatoin cannot be completed because an item with the name <br>".DS_Store" already exists."<br><br>What can I do to get things copied over = 5-6 folders have done fine <br>but the rest are not<br>-- <br>Victoria L. Herring, Des Moines, Iowa. Blogs: <br><a
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