Objective/File is busy

Hi Macrumors,



i need your help. Last night I moved some pictures from a SD-Card to an USB drive. The file transfer was successful and the „move“ window closed like always. Later when I tried to edit the files I noticed that they were transparent and I can’t do anything with them. Open with preview( space ) works fine and they are displayed correctly. Double click ( open ) doesn't work. Also no copying, no moving, no deleting, no opening in photoshop etc.

The file size is of the folder is as big as I expected so the files have been moved correctly. The files on the sd-card have been deleted by Finder after moving was successful )



I googled the problem but unfortunately I only found people who had problems with deleting their bin/trash.



Can anybody help me? The pictures are very important.



I already tried to plug/unplug the usb drive. Also connected it to another Mac. The files were still transparent.

edit:
Tried some Finder Alternatives.

File is busy ( - 47 ) error

 

Hey JohnDS,

thank you for your reply. I already tried that and got the permission to read and write but couldn't do anything.

I figured out a workaround. I booted Windows 7 in parallels and copied the files to another place. This somehow broke the "file is busy"-status.

Funny that even a second Mac couldn't edit the files after switching the usb drive.