Troubleshooting & messages · Moves and copies that didn't finish
What does "Couldn't prepare the destination safely, so nothing was changed" mean?
Short answer: The destination needed preparing, but Storage Studio couldn't confirm it was a safe place to change, so nothing changed. Choose a normal folder on a connected, writable drive.
To finish this move, Storage Studio needed to clear or create something at the destination. It refuses to do that anywhere it can't confirm is a safe place — so it changed nothing, and your original is untouched.
Pick a destination inside a normal folder on your drive (not the top level of a system disk), make sure the drive is connected and writable, and try again.