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Old 07-18-2009, 10:24 AM   #16
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This may seem wierd but I hard rebooted the external hard drive, I didn't do this before. At the sametime I hard rebooted my Desktop also. During boot, Linux did a full scan on sda1. Then I followed all steps in my first post here. Issue seems resolved now. We will see.
 
Old 07-18-2009, 10:26 AM   #17
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Move seems to be working, only thing is that in command prompt I get messages as below for each file transferred.

mv: failed to preserve ownership for `/media/sda1/Movies2/Que.viva.Mexico_512kb.mp4': Operation not permitted
 
Old 07-18-2009, 10:42 AM   #18
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Yes, it worked, had a feeling it must be something simple. Hadn't used external HD in a LONGGGG time, so it likely needed a scan. Thanks for the support all. LQ rocks as usual !!!
 
  


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