trouble moving files around in dolphin

[Guest]

I got 12.10 installed after the second try the other weekend. The first attempt left me unable to login to my old profile. So I moved all my files off to another hdd and installed. Then able to login I set a copy task to work to move all my files back over into my new home and went off to do other things. When I got back to my machine I went about installing the necessaries. I then rebooted and tried to get some music going only to find out it had not been moved over. It seems as though dolphin is being a bit finicky about which files it will copy/move around. Had to install and use Konqueror. Is there any word about a fix for dolphin or do I just need to get used to using Konqueror again?

[SteveRiley]

We will need more details to help you.

* What errors did you see, if any?
* Is there anything in common with all the files that didn't move, such as incorrect permissions?

These are just a couple examples.

[luckyone]

I'd bet on Permissions. I've hit that particular learning curve several times. It's usually the first thing I check after a failed file transfer. Especially from another disk.

[Unhinged]

Anytime I'm dealing with moving files between hard drives (Win7, Kubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.10) I find it easier in general to run as root. For example in the terminal just type "sudo dolphin".

[Spadge]

When I am moving large amounts of stuff I care about, I use rsync as root and chown after moving it back.

[Snowhog]

...in the terminal just type "sudo dolphin".

Not the way to do this. Whenever you want/need to use a GUI application "as root", launch it with kdesudo.

[SteveRiley]

Until the OP comes back with more info, we're all kind of speculation mode at the moment...

[Guest]

We will need more details to help you.

* What errors did you see, if any? I got an error that some files could not be transferred correctly
* Is there anything in common with all the files that didn't move, such as incorrect permissions? The permissions seem correct on files in question

These are just a couple examples.

So I first tried drag and drop, got an error that some files would not transfer. I tried this as root with the same outcome. It seems that most of the files were large media files (mp3, videos) but also some documents and encrypted files. Luckily I have most of the files on a netbook as well so I have been able to move things between the netbook and my desktop using Konqueror. With the variance in file types I am still coming across files that were not moved, Non of the files were vary critical so I have re-purposed the other drive and plan to use that as my partition for VMs.

I will connect my netbook later this weekend and try and get some more output in Konsole to share on this problem.

Thank you all whom have replied. I have the next couple days off of work so I should be back more often at least through the weekend.