Yes, that's a good point in this context. Remember what everyone told you about floppies?: "Don't carry them in your shirt pocket! Always put them into their sleeve!"
Fortunately, my stick is not gone yet: I used a standing-around PC laptop to copy the data (3 GB or more, that would have taken ages on the G4, with USB 1.1) reformat the stick and move everything back. Now my G4 is happy to write on it again. But I'll be more careful in the future, i.e. don't rely as much on sticks keeping their data. Maybe I'll start write-protecting it when I only want to read from it -- again kind of like I did with floppies back then: use one for moving files from Mac to PC and another one for moving files from PC to Mac, write-protecting that one before inserting it into the Mac. Is there some way to make the Mac ask permission for writing on a volume when you mount it? I mean like this: I insert a stick or connect a HD and a dialog comes up asking: "How to mount volume Backup?" with options "Read&write" (default) and "Read only". Dan wrote: > Anecdotal... but I'd venture that many usb sticks go bad because > people can't be bothered to (or don't know to) wipe off / clean the > contacts or anything. The sticks gets stashed in fairly hostile > environments - pockets, purses, etc, collecting crud. Shove 'em into > the socket, they short out, gersparken, poof. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
