qvm-copy-to-vm failing

[hedgehogdrfrink]

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Qubes OS release

4.2.1

Brief summary

unable to use qvm-copy-to-vm commands, throws the following error as an example,

qvm-copy-to-vm sys-usb /home/user/Downloads/barbet-ap2a.240805.005-factory-231e0672.zip /home/user/
qubes-fs-tree-check: Refusing to copy unsafe symbolic link "/home/user//.librewolf/md32lpwd.default-default/lock"

[user@android-qube Downloads]$ touch anything
[user@android-qube Downloads]$ qvm-copy-to-vm sys-usb anything /home/user/
qubes-fs-tree-check: Refusing to copy unsafe symbolic link "/home/user//.librewolf/md32lpwd.default-default/lock"

Steps to reproduce

pretty much try transferring anything with qubes to another vm. This used to work when I setup a windows qube before.

Expected behavior

copy the file to another qube.

Actual behavior

errors out with the error shown above.

[alimirjamali]

qvm-copy-to-vm sys-usb /home/user/Downloads/barbet-ap2a.240805.005-factory-231e0672.zip /home/user/
[user@android-qube Downloads]$ qvm-copy-to-vm sys-usb anything /home/user/

Please try man qvm-copy or man qvm-copy-to-vm in one of your AppVMs. You are not using it right (Are you trying to copy a file to a destination directory within sys-usb?). It always copies to /home/user/QubesIncoming/<SOURCE_VM_NAME>. The way that you are using it, it tries to copy both anything AND everything within </home/user/*> to sys-usb

[hedgehogdrfrink]

I've always used qvm-copy-to-vm [Destination vm] [source-file-path] [destination vm file path] successfully before in the past, first time I ran into this issue though that was setting up a windows qube with dom0 looking at the man page,

Thank you,

was able to use qvm-copy successfully.