Copying to external gives "Could not make folder"

I just bought an external and quick formatted it in XP to NTFS. I'm trying to copy stuff inside, but it just gives "Could not make folder /media/Arda-2/Videos/."

I'm using dolphin. I have ntfs-3g and stuff, because I could read/write my other external from gnome/nautilus.

I've tried

Code:

sudo chown gary:gary -R /media/Arda-2

but that just gives me "invalid group: 'gary:gary'. I think it's possible due me using Arch.

I've had this problem everytime I use kde/dolphin and an external hard-drive. Is this a dolphin problem or a kde one? Is dolphin a good file manager in the first place?

 

Have you tried this:

sudo chown username -R /media/Arda-2

 

I'm a bit confused. Were you trying to change ownership to user gary in group gary? Shouldn't it be group users?

 

Well, now I'm not too sure. I got some help at Ubuntuforums, and after 2 pages, I still couldn't fix it.

Here's the thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1015671

I think I might have slightly botched the user groups section when I was installing arch

 

What did you put as your primary group when you were creating your user account?

This is what I always do:

primary group > users
additional groups > power,wheel,video,audio,storage,optical,lp

Pretty much what the Beginner's Guide recommends...

 

Yeap. I did that.

This is extremely odd. This problem never happens in Gnome, but only in KDE. It's one of the biggest turn-offs from trying out KDE for a long term

 

Did you add yourself to "Storage" in /etc/group? Try following this guide if you are using HAL:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#NTFS

Note: You can use Ubuntu forum for help but most of your question/problem can be found in arch forum and/or wiki. There will be some slight difference.

 

I have storage in /etc/groups

Thanks. I've added it in, but it won't really be of use until I move to kde again.

I do know that Ubuntu is slightly different, but since it's such a big forum with tons more people, the number of responses will be higher

 

Oh, and just to note, there is a very large group of Arch users who hang out in the Ubuntu forums. There might even be more archers in the Ubuntu forums than the Arch forums.

 

I've tried there. No luck too.