Why does Mac OS X sometimes complain that a copy failed because a file is in use?
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Recently I've been copying files from DVDs to network storage on my Mac running Leopard 10.5.7.
I'm just dragging and dropping in Finder to perform the copy.
Occasionally the copy will fail with a dialog complaining that a file is in use. If I repeat the copy generally it completes successfully.
I could understand this being a problem if one was trying to move a file and it was open by another app. But none of these files are open in other apps. I just pop the DVD in, drag and drop the files to my NAS's network share and sometimes it fails with the "file in use" error.
This is very annoying. Anyone have any ideas?
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