09-17-2019, 02:12 AM
RAMd®d wrote:
No, I did not see any errors. The Pictures folder copied fine. But the OS won't let me delete the original folder on the HD labeled 'Pictures' after I have copied it. Is this just a Sierra quirk, or true of all OS variants?
No, it's nothing new.
It's deemed an integral part of the OS.
Look at the original folder and your copy.
The icons should be different.
When you copy one of those root (?) folders, you get a generic folder.
Maybe some terminal-fu could change all that, and build some kind of link to your external folder, or just make an alias to the external folder (if you haven't already) and ignore the OS folder.
Thanks, RAMd®d, for the explanation. I really haven't kept up with the ins-and-outs of OS X, though I started back with 10.4. Funny thing: I rarely look at the Icon View, preferring the Column View (I was a long-time user of Greg's Browser, back in the OS 8 and 9 era), so I didn't notice the change in the icon.
I could use some terminal-fu, to be sure. You know, DOS soured me on command-line interfaces, and I never got over it. The Macintosh graphical interface (System 6 when I discovered it) was a revelation: I could see what was going on!
/Mr Lynn