Great news! How it got locked, however, will remain a mystery.

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 6:39 AM, Alan Cranbury <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The `mv` also failed, with the same error message. Googling for that problem 
> didn't really help, but all the solutions used Finder instead of the 
> terminal. I tried using Finder's Get Info to see if that gave me anything 
> extra. Turns out all the files I downloaded were locked, which doesn't show 
> up in an 'ls -al' command. The top response on this 
> <http://superuser.com/questions/40749/command-to-unlock-locked-files-on-os-x> 
> page worked perfectly, and the import was successful! Thanks for your help 
> Adrian!
> 
> On Monday, 20 February 2017 23:07:12 UTC-5, Adrian Sampson wrote:
> That's odd! My only other guess is a read-only file system, but that seems 
> unlikely if it has your home directory on it.
> 
> Have you tried using a plain `mv` from the terminal to see if you can get the 
> same error manually?
> 
> Adrian
> 
> On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Alan Cranbury <alancr...@ <>gmail.com 
> <http://gmail.com/>> wrote:
> 
>> That's a good thought, here's the results of that, both look alright(I 
>> think). I also tried chmod -R 777ing the beets/music directory, but that 
>> didn't help either.
>> 
>> Alans-MacBook-Pro:~ alan$ ls -al beets/music/Imagine\ Dragons/Night\Visions/
>> 
>> 
>> total 134928
>> 
>> 
>> drwxr-xr-x  5 alan  staff       170 20 Feb 22:32 .
>> 
>> 
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 alan  staff       102 20 Feb 19:53 ..
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 alan  staff  23025788 20 Feb 22:30 01 Radioactive.1.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 alan  staff  23025788 20 Feb 22:32 01 Radioactive.2.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 alan  staff  23025788 20 Feb 19:53 01 Radioactive.flac
>> 
>> 
>> Alans-MacBook-Pro:~ alan$ ls -al Downloads/Imagine\ Dragons\ -\ 
>> Night\Visions\ \[UK\ Deluxe\ Edition\]\ \(2013\)\ -\ FLAC/
>> 
>> 
>> total 1118440
>> 
>> 
>> drwxr-xr-x  27 alan  staff       918  3 Mar  2015 .
>> 
>> 
>> drwx------+ 40 alan  staff      1360 20 Feb 19:36 ..
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  23025788  3 Mar  2015 01. Radioactive.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  24114298  3 Mar  2015 02. Tiptoe.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  30256606  3 Mar  2015 03. It's Time.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  20014289  3 Mar  2015 04. Demons.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  22230268  3 Mar  2015 05. On Top of the 
>> World.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  30810051  3 Mar  2015 06. Amsterdam.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  29689756  3 Mar  2015 07. Hear Me.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  26898022  3 Mar  2015 08. Every Night.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  25553031  3 Mar  2015 09. Bleeding Out.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  26754739  3 Mar  2015 10. Underdog.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  61176474  3 Mar  2015 11. Nothing Left to Say , 
>> Rocks.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  30647595  3 Mar  2015 12. Cha-Ching (Till We 
>> Grow Older).flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  30289441  3 Mar  2015 13. Working Man.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  19370282  3 Mar  2015 14. My Fault.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  24657928  3 Mar  2015 15. Round and Round.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  27089018  3 Mar  2015 16. The River.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  30750196  3 Mar  2015 17. America.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  30194756  3 Mar  2015 18. Selene.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  32704097  3 Mar  2015 19. Cover Up.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff  26118859  3 Mar  2015 20. I Don't Mind.flac
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff      3652  3 Mar  2015 Imagine Dragons -Night 
>> Visions [UK Deluxe Edition].cue
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff     21070  3 Mar  2015 Imagine Dragons -Night 
>> Visions [UK Deluxe Edition].log
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff      1331  3 Mar  2015 Imagine Dragons -Night 
>> Visions [UK Deluxe Edition].m3u
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff    162204  3 Mar  2015 Imagine Dragons -Night 
>> Visions [front].jpg
>> 
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alan  staff     61423  3 Mar  2015 folder.jpg
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Monday, 20 February 2017 21:25:22 UTC-5, Adrian Sampson wrote:
>> Is there any chance the Unix permissions are just wonky on the source or the 
>> destination directory? You can try: 
>> 
>> $ ls -la '/Users/alan/Downloads/Imagine Dragons - Night Visions [UK Deluxe 
>> Edition] (2013) - FLAC/' 
>> $ ls -la '/Users/alan/beets/music/Imagine Dragons/Night Visions/' 
>> 
>> > On Feb 20, 2017, at 8:01 PM, Alan Cranbury <[email protected] <>> wrote: 
>> > 
>> > Hi, I've been struggling with a strange error importing files into my 
>> > beets library. 
>> > 
>> > Error: Operation not permitted while moving /Users/alan/Downloads/Imagine 
>> > Dragons - Night Visions [UK Deluxe Edition] (2013) - FLAC/01. 
>> > Radioactive.flac to /Users/alan/beets/music/Imagine Dragons/Night 
>> > Visions/01 Radioactive.flac 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.3, and my first thought was that SIP was 
>> > interfering, so I disabled it. I still get the error despite that. I tried 
>> > installing python3 and using that version of beets, but that still results 
>> > in the same error. I can't remember the last time this worked, but it was 
>> > definitely a while ago (ran into the same problem and gave up then). It 
>> > doesn't matter which album, or how many in a single import I do, I always 
>> > get this same error. 
>> > 
>> > Is there anything I can do to figure out why exactly this is happening? 
>> > Has anyone seen this before? 
>> > 
>> > Thanks 
>> > 
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