How to resolve "The folder contents count not be displayed." input/output error

Question

The folder contents could not be displayed.

Sorry, could not display the contents of "[folder name]": Error when getting information for file "/folder/folder/folder/folder/folder/file.ext": Input/output error

There's no helpful information in this error box. The file explorer just stays in the folder that is the grandparent to the file; it refuses to open the folder that is parent to the file.

The only thing any googling has told me is to run badblocks. Well, I did, this is the result after 56 hours:

Checking blocks 0 to 3906982911
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done                                                 
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)

So if there are no bad blocks (should never have been on such a new hard drive), what do I do to fix this?

Using "rm " does not work.

rm: cannot remove '<file>': Input/output error

So I can't delete it to even just redownload the file.

System Logs from searching Super-key "System Logs" and pressing Enter, then going to "All" section:

I am putting in all the logs from the time I found the logs up to when I plugged in the drive and navigated via nautilus to the folder and got the error.

Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme. NLThis may indicate the pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
[session uid=1000 pid=3911 Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.logs'
Unknown key gtk-primary-buttons-wraps-slider in /mytheme.ini
[session uid=1000 pid=3911] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Calculator.SearchProvider'
Unknown key gtk-primary-button-wraps-slider in /mytheme.ini
[session uid=1000 pid=3911] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Characters.BackgroundService'
systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully
DING: Gjs-Message: 11:17:04.739: JS LOG: Couldn't parse protonvpn-app.desktop as a desktopfile, will treat it as a regular file.
[session uid=1000 pid=3911] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.HotplugSniffer'
Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /media/user/drivename on behalf of uid 1000
Global ownership and permissions enforced, configuration type 7
pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
ntfs3: sdb1: volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!
sdb1: Process '/usr/bin/unshare -m /usr/bin/snap auto-import --mount=/dv/sdb1' failed with exit code 1.
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
 sdb: sdb1
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
.....ready
Started Hostname Service.
[system] Successfully activated service 'org.freekdesopt.hostname1'
Called "net usershare info" but it failed: failed to execute child process "net" (No such file or directory)
Starting Hostname Service...
[system] Activated via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' rquested by ':1.171' (uid=1000 pid=8555 comm=/usr/bind/nautilus --gap..."
ses 11:0:0:1: Failed to bind enclosure -19
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk...
ses 11:0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 13
sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
scsi 11:0:0:0:1: Enclosure WD SES Device 2007 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
bus: 4, device: 3 was not an MTP device
scsi host11: usb-storage 4-1:1.0
usb-storage 4-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
usb 4-1: SerialNumber: snredacted

Now I just tried https://askubuntu.com/questions/112150/how-to-correctly-fix-a-dirty-ntfs-partition-without-using-chkdsk's suggestion for sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdb1 and it gave results:

refusing to operate on read-write mounted device /dev/sdb1

okay, unmount and try again

Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1
NTFS partition /dev/sdb1 was processed successfully

Then I went back to nautilus and clicked on the drive name in the sidebar and then checked my logs again, this is what I have new up until the previous log entry that began/ended with the pixbuf from icon theme log message:

ntfs3: sdb1: MFT: r=b30, expect seq=1 instead of 2!
gtk_widget_set_visible: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
DING: Gjs-Message: 11:33:34.195: JS LOG: Couldn't parse protonvpn-app.desktop as a desktop file, will treat it as a regular file.
[session uid=1000 pid=3911] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.HotplugSniffer'
Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /media/user/name on behalf of uid 1000
+ sleep 3600
pam_unix(sudio:Session): session closed for user root
DING: Gjs-Message: 11:33:16.316: JS LOG: Couldn't parse protonvpn-app.desktop as a desktop file, will treat it as a regular file.
Unmounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 1000
media-user-name.mount: Deactivated successfully.
Cleaning up mount point /media/user/name (device 8:17 is not mounted)
Unmounting /dev/sdb1 (name)
pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Can't update stage view actors <unnamed>[<MetaSurfaceActorX11>:0xhexid] is on becausse it nees an allocation.
Unknown key gtk-primary-button-wraps-slider in /mytheme.ini
[session uid=1000 pid=3911] Successfully acivated service 'org.gnome.Calculator.SearchProvider'
Unknown key gtk-primary-button-wraps-slider in /mytheme.ini
[session uid=1000 pid=3911] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Characters.BackgroundService'
Can't update stage views actor <unnamed>[<MetaSurfaceActorX11>:0xhexid] is on because it needs an allocation.
anacron.service: Deactivated succesffully
Normal exit 90 jobs run)
STarted Run anacron jobs.
pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user roote
(root) CMD ([ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && if [ ! - d /run/systemd/system ]; then /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null; fi)
pam_unix(cronsession): session opened for user root(uid=0 by (uid=0)
Can't update stage views actor <unnamed>[<MetaSurafceActorX11>:0xhexid] is on because it needs an allocation.
Could not laod a pixbuf from icon theme. NLThis may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.