Thanks for the info. I'm going to look into it. Just to illustrate a little better, this is what it looks like. http://www.alan-warren.com/images/strange_chars.jpg
Thanks On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:32 PM, walt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/30/2011 02:36 PM, Alan Warren wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting >> with strange characters in it's name. >> My thumbdrive mounts as /media/ >> > > I can offer an observation but not an answer. Your email client, mutt, > is sending "quoted-printable" text, so I'm not sure I'm reading the same > thing that you are writing. > > For example, your last line, above, looks to me like this when I view your > post in raw ascii: > > 'My thumbdrive mounts as /media/=0E' > > That =HH is typical of "quoted-printable" encoding: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable > > Maybe someone else can tell us if this has any relation to your problem? > > > >

