Move/Copy to Other Qube Issue

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I’m having a weird issue. I downloaded Belena Etcher in my Debian 12 Personal qube, but I don’t really keep anything in that one so I wanted to move the file to another qube. But when I right-clicked the folder for the app and clicked either Move or Copy to Other Qube nothing happened!

I thought the VM was messing up, so I shut it down and rebooted. And then the same thing happened. Then I tried clicking on something else to move and it worked!

So why is it not letting me copy or move the Belena Etcher folder to another qube? The little box simply doesn’t even appear!

(I haven’t tried doing it with the CLI, but that’s really not the point. The point is I should be able to do it with the GUI)

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Do it in terminal - it will print errors if it don’t like something.

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I would tar up the folder and then qvm-send it to the other VM.

tar czf /tmp/belena-etcher.tgz  \
     /path/to/belena-etcher/folder &&
qvm-copy /tmp/belena-etcher.tgz
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I’ll have to do it later, but I’ll let you know what it says.

And @ak47 that’s pretty smart. There’s no reason why that wouldn’t work, so thank you

(This will be marked as the solution, but later. I still want to try what @KitsuneNoBaka said and report back to them first. Because that really shouldn’t be the solution, just a work-around)

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copy/move to vm will choke on softlinks. That was some sort of deliberate thing done for security reasons that I freely admit I don’t understand.

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user@personal:~/Downloads$ qvm-copy balenaEtcher-linux-x64
qubes-fs-tree-check: Refusing to copy unsafe symbolic link "balenaEtcher-linux-x64/balenaEtcher"

Looks like @SteveC speaks truth

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