Hi Matt I think the reason that you are having trouble with copying to your external HD is that the drive is formatted in HTFS. This is a Microsoft format that Mac can read but cannot write to.
As for your second issue with icon view there is a simple way to solve this. When you have your desired view set press Control + J. Here you can set Finder's default viewing options. HTH Best wishes James > On 14 Nov 2018, at 15:56, Matt Turner <meturner2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks. > I’m trying to move a folder from the desktop, to and external USB drive. > When I paste the folder to the drive, I get the bonk sound, and the folder > doesn’t copy. > I'm using command c, to copy, and command v to paste. > Also, when I set the view for the USB drive to list view, the next time I > plug in said drive, It doesn’t remember the view, It goes back to icon view. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.