What utility are you using to copy or move said folders and files?
The Toshiba USB 3 Drive is plugged directly into my iMac running El Capitan (10.11.6). It work for 1 transfer only (using drag and drop) then failed to take any more or allow me to delete what was already there. The mac Disk Utility could not do anything with it, I could not even reformat the drive. It is going back to Amazon.