This was very weird. I was recently trying to get files off an old laptop that had suffered a fall. The internet connection was not working. Bluetooth was not working. And it looked like an old USB I found, which I erased and reformatted multiple times, wasn't working either. When I tried pasting files into the drive via the GUI, I got the following error (yes I know how to take screenshots, but remember that whether or not I could get files off this computer was an open question):
And yet, copying into /media/[drive name] via the terminal worked, although it was slow:
[shakes head]
