My grandson, a computer programer took my laptop at Christmas and copied the files to his Ubuntu PC. It seems that Macs and some operating systems do this. He lives 1500 miles from me but will try to...

"Have you set up a share on it and set both NTFS and share permission on both. It will be asking for a username and password on the pc its self"

Yes to all the above. When I first set it back up...

This is my second post on a new topic today. I am having problems since I had my hard drive replaced with an SSD. My other network computers cannot access it and asks for credentials. I have tried...

I had my hard drive replaced with an SSD. My files were copied to an Ubuntu drive and when copied back to my windows 10, thousands of files have the ._ prefix. I tried removing it from several files...

There were no changes or installations. I was trying to consolidate duplicate files from 3 laptops and was moving them in groups to see if there were duplicates. No problems for about an hour or so...

I did that first, then closed down, restarted and the same thing happened.

Yes, I could do that but still wondering what is causing it. Thanks for everyone's input. Sometimes these thing have no apparent reason for happening and usually follow some kind of windows update....

That is the normal procedure and how I am doing it. It is still happening sporatically so I shut down then attempt to start over. Works for about 10 minutes then recurs.

Those aren't the problems. Seems the longer I work in File Explorer, the more it happens. Starts out working just fine then goes downhill from there.

A new glitch has developed in my Win 10 file explorer. Whenever I attempt to select multiple files in a row, in order to move them, no matter how careful I am multiple windows open for each file. As...

My optical drive is working but only shows up in file explorer when there is a disk inserted. I have followed all instructions to show hidden files and folders and it still does not show up on any of...