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Cant Copy Files to external hard drive

Asked by Vers420

I just switched to Xubuntu because i was told it would make my older labtop run faster,
and it does; however;

I cant download my torrents directly to my external hard drive
i cant copy my down loads from my lab top to my external hard drive,
i just want to drag and drop like in windows, or just click send to but every time i do it says

"Failed to copy, cannot create directory"
if you start telling me to use command prompt and line code, then never mind, i will switch back to windows,

thanks

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

A dual-boot system that allows you to choose between Windows and Ubuntu each tie you switch the machine on is a great way to give yourself time to get used to using Ubuntu at your own pace.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
It's probably taken years to learn as much as you do about Windows and it will take a few weeks to get used to Ubuntu too.

On the top taskbar does the "Places" menu have many "Media" listed? The "Places" menu should have

Home Folder, Desktop, Documents, Music, Pictures, Video, Network, Connect to Server, Search for Files, Recent Documents

Does it have anything else on your machine? Please list anything else in that menu. Also when you open your "Documents" folder is there a status bar at the bottom of the window showing how much free space you have left on your hard-drive? Something that might help you make Ubuntu look a bit more like Windows would be to go up to the "View" menu (when you have the "Documents" folder (or similar) open) tick "sidepane" and in the pane at the side click on where it says "Places" there and change that to "Tree". That should make it look a bit more like "Explorer" now.

Also there's this guide to help you generally in the meantime, until you give me the info i've asked for, or someone else appears ;)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

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