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When I plug my seagate external into my macbook pro I can play and get to all of the files on it but when I try to transfer files on to it it gets half way done and then I get the message “this file is in use by another application” and will not let the transfer go through. The thing is it is not being used by another application, I quite all applications. Then when i try and eject my hard drive I have to force eject it. Things I have tried:

  1. relaunched finder
  2. ran both macbook pro and hard drive through disk utility - everything was fine
  3. unplugged and replugged my external from both my computer and its power source. The only thing I can think of is that it fell off my desk a day or two ago about two feet… could that be the reason it isn’t letting the file transfer go through? I also just recently updated my mac, could that also be the reason? Please help!!!

So it most likely isn’t an issue on the drive end. The best way to verify this is if you have a flash drive lying around to try to transfer to that. If you get the same message we will now that your mac thinks this file is currently in use. From that point, if you can copy the file and paste the copy of it to your desktop, you should be able to transfer the copy over to the Seagate with no issues. Let me know if this works and we can go from there.