Yes, I always eject properly. The one time when I did not was because my system froze up for some crazy reason. It was a really cheap brand of thumb drive, and in my research on this, it turns out that this is not all that uncommon for a thumb drive to fail, which really surprised me.
On Aug 3, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: > Hello. It's strange that your flash drive would stop working after only a > few months. Do you eject your thumb drives or do you just pull them out? On > a mac, you command+tab to the finder window, find your flash drive, then do > command+e. You should only take your flash drive out after you do that. > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:16 AM, Lynn Schneider wrote: > >> Hi Jenny. I use a thumb drive with my NLS DTB player all the time and I do >> my file transfers with a Mac, but I recently had a similar sort of thing >> happen. It ended up being that I had a bad thumb drive. It was strange >> because the drive had been working perfectly for several months, and then >> one day it just started doing weird stuff and the DTB player would not read >> the drive properly, so I replaced it with another one and all was well >> again. It therefore may be that you have a bad thumb drive. You might try >> reformatting it again using FAT32, maybe in a PC, and then redownloading and >> copying the books on the drive. Another possibility is that your downloads >> are corrupt for some reason. Try downloading the books again to see if it >> was just a bad download. And you're sure you're putting each book in the >> root directory of the drive? The DTB players from NLS seem to like when >> each folder is placed in the root of the drive instead of in a subfolder. >> >> Good luck and let us know what happens. >> >> >> On Aug 2, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Jenny Kennedy(Howard) wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> Hope everyone is doing great. I have a question, I know somebody a >>> while ago sort of answered this. Okay here's the deal. >>> >>> I bought a new 4GB thumb drive. I put DTBs on it but when I put it in >>> the DTB player it shows only 3 books and only one of them plays. The >>> other two are book errors. Is this due to the fact I'm on a mac? The >>> DTB will play 4GB drives as I had one, it has crashed out, thus the >>> reason for the new one. >>> >>> Someone said something about upgrading software? Is this for the >>> thumb drive or the DTB player? I've got the DTBM update from November >>> for the player but is there something else I need to be doing in >>> configuring the thumb drive? >>> Thanks much >>> >>> Jenny >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
