I used to be able to drag and drop folders and files from my hard drive to my external hard drive within Lightroom. Now when I drop the files into my external hard drive it says the file could not be created. Help!
This is a permissions problem, wherever you are trying to create this folder, you do not have WRITE permission in your operating system.
Another issue is that people report serious bugs on occasion when trying to move photos from one disk to another inside of Lightroom, and so the very strong recommendation is to move the photos a different way, using your operating system then reconnecting inside of Lightroom. The instructions to do this are in this document, scroll down to the section entitled "Part 2 — Updating Folder Location".
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