reloading the files of the external hard drive to the new computer laptop

I'm trying to reloaded files etc. from an external hard drive to my laptop. I took the files of my old office that was on is way out, so just in case I lost them all I copied them. I tried setting up my external hard drive and transfer just a couple of files just to see if it would work. I sent them to my desktop from my laptop and they also went to my documents, but once the hard drive is disconnected files will not open. I do not know what I'm dong wrong as I am not very computor spirit, so that the answers would be useful in silly English thank you. Sorry to be so long-winded.

Sheila

Hello @shedeval

I understand that you have copied your files on an external drive from your old computer.

You tried to copy the files to the new computer, but when you disconnect the external hard drive the files are no longer accessible.

I think that you have created or copied a shortcut to the new computer and not the actual files.  When you're logged out outside the new computer had more disk access to open files.

I would like to redo the copy and when you finished externally, log out and then try again.

Good luck!

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