Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

So you’ve enabled WebDAV on your OS X server with the intention to drag-and-drop files and folders to a web site. But there’s a problem. When you drag a folder from your local machine to the WebDAV share, OS X gives you this error:

“The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.”

WTF does that mean? What privileges and what items? (Some specifics would really be a great troubleshooting help here.) You can create new folders and copy files by the dozen, you just can’t drag-and-drop an existing folder. You know that ACL and/or POSIX permissions on the WebDAV server are set correctly. It’s frustrating. What the hell is going on?
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