Comments on: Linux: Cannot move folders – inter-device move failed, unable to remove target: Is a directory

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:54:30 +0000

Firefox 12.0 Windows 7 x64 Edition
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0

You are very Welcome!

By: Max

Max — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:49:55 +0000

Firefox 12.0 Mac OS X 10.6
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0

Great explanation. Thanks for sharing.

By: gjf

gjf — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:40:22 +0000

Firefox 8.0 GNU/Linux
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

cp,I get it .

By: Nathan Friend

Nathan Friend — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:56:39 +0000

Google Chrome 16.0.912.75 Mac OS X 10.7.2
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

Make’s sense, although the error message could be a bit more descriptive.

By: Tomas Lavicky

Tomas Lavicky — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:30:37 +0000

Chromium 14.0.835.202 Ubuntu 11.04 x64
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/14.0.835.202 Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1

I’ve met this problem for the first time after 10+ years of everyday using Linux. Strange thing – it appeared on only one of moved directories. “mv -b” works of course but it takes much more time and sources.