One or more items can't be copied...

[thermarest]

Do you want to skip them and copy the remaining items?

I'm copying some files to a backup drive and quite a few of them are giving me this message. One, for example, is the Toast.app file. It doesn't appear to be locked, I have permission to read and write, yet my iBook (10.4.6) refuses to copy it and other files.

Anyone know why?

[samintx]

I'll be happy for the answer...I have had this happen also.

[MacMagus]

Have you verified your drive with the Disk Utility lately?

[jimbrady]

Option-Drag the file(s) in question to another folder and you should be good.

[$tevie]

I find that any files with symbols like $ or % or & seem to create this problem. Or I should say, eliminating them has solved this problem for me in the past. YMMV.

[thermarest]

opt-drag is a good trick, thanks!

What ended up working (by accident, since I had given up momentarily) was that SilverKeeper succeded in copying it to my backup drive, and from there it copied fine to where I wanted it. Weird. I've had the problem too with % and &, etc but thats not the case here. thanks.