On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:21:28 -0700, mike wrote:
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:40 AM, katan ka...@his.com wrote:
I ask this--maybe I shouldn't admit this in public--because I use a
thumb drive as my primary data source for email and Quicken. I can use
Primary data source meaning you have a backup
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:26 AM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Sep 19, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Robert Carroll wrote:
Based on my experience, I would advise against trusting a thumb drive or
a memory chip to store data over the long run. A month or two, probably OK.
Yes indeed. Data stored
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:03:07 -0400, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Flash drives have a limited number of read write cycles and that might be
what you ran into.
I'm not doubting your word, but where do you find this info? and do you
have any idea what the limit is?
I ask this--maybe I shouldn't admit
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:40 AM, katan ka...@his.com wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:03:07 -0400, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Flash drives have a limited number of read write cycles and that might be
what you ran into.
I'm not doubting your word, but where do you find this info? and do you
have
Primary data source meaning you have a backup readily available?
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:40 AM, katan ka...@his.com wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:03:07 -0400, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Flash drives have a limited number of read write cycles and that might be
what you ran into.
I'm not
Windows won't tag the files inside the zipped file, just the zipped
file itself.
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On Sep 18, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a free one built into windows also...not sure how good/bad
it is, I
always install winrar first thing on new
Based on my experience, I would advise against trusting a thumb drive
or a memory chip to store data over the long run. A month or two,
probably OK.
I had a SD card with student grade spreadsheets for two or three years
of classes plus other data. The card was in a pocket PC. One day the
On Sep 19, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Robert Carroll wrote:
Based on my experience, I would advise against trusting a thumb
drive or a memory chip to store data over the long run. A month or
two, probably OK.
Yes indeed. Data stored on flash drives can vanish in a flash. Isn't
that why we call
There is a free one built into windows also...not sure how good/bad it is, I
always install winrar first thing on new windows installs.
It's not very good, but it's enough to unzip. But I must have missed something
in the problem description. The files will still be read-only in the zip file,
Windows won't tag the files inside the zipped file, just the zipped
file itself.
Well, any decent zip utility will store the attributes of the files it zips,
and restore them on extract, so they really should remain read-only. I would
think that even Windows's built-in zip support
does this
I never said it wouldn't store the attributes. That's exactly what it is
doing. If you zip the file and then burn it to cd, it only locks the zip
file.
Windows xp and vista/7 seem to decide that since you are moving a file to a
cd, it will lock the file from being changed. Tom's problem is
Thew reason Windows changes the flag when you move a file to a
writable media, is that when you write it to a CD/DVD it becomes readable only.
Once it is put on a media it must change the flag otherwise it would
error out all the time when you try to change or write a file to your CD/DVD
I
That is what I do all the time. Only CD's in special, special situations.
Stewart
At 11:34 AM 9/18/2009, you wrote:
I think at this point I'd just keep some cheapo thumb drives around. You
can get 8 gig drives that size of chiclets. Format them in a manner that
can be read by any system.
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Chris Dunford wrote:
Windows won't tag the files inside the zipped file, just the zipped
file itself.
Well, any decent zip utility will store the attributes of the files it
zips, and restore them on extract, so they really should remain
read-only. I would think that even
This is the theory. Haven't tried it myself, it was suggested by a friend
on IRC.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Vicky Staubly vi...@steeds.com wrote:
The problem was, as I understood it, files marked read/write were
being copied to a CD, where they became read-only. Then, on being
copied
It's not going to do much good to keep discussing this, because as I
pointed out yesterday Vista does not normally behave this way. Yes, if
you view the properties on the disk it will show as read only, but
after copied back to the hard drive they don't.
Rather than discuss a non-existent issue,
Um...it's not a non-existent issue if it happened.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not going to do much good to keep discussing this, because as I
pointed out yesterday Vista does not normally behave this way. Yes, if
you view the properties on the disk it
Not for the one machine, no. But look at some of the ridiculous
comments in this thread. Instead of trying to reproduce the issue and
solve it, people are jumping all over the place with wild opinions.
One person even gave a lengthy explanation of why Windows does this on purpose!
On Fri, Sep
Are you sure this was meant for this thread?
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
Not for the one machine, no. But look at some of the ridiculous
comments in this thread. Instead of trying to reproduce the issue and
solve it, people are jumping all over the place
XP had the unfortunate habit of setting the read-only flag of files
copied to CDs. Copying such files back to the hard drive left the
read-only flag set. I had to go to Properties to uncheck the read-
only box before I could edit the files.
Today I did same with Vista. Again the problem
Could be a permissions problem?
My other thought was...you are still using cds?
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:50 PM, TPiwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
XP had the unfortunate habit of setting the read-only flag of files copied
to CDs. Copying such files back to the hard drive left the read-only flag
You're doing *something* wrong, because I just tried it here and I get
no flags set but the a. I assume that's 'archived'? No trouble at all
editing the file after it's copied back to the hard drive.
I used the freeware CDBurnerXP, a BD-RE disk, and a plain .txt file.
Lest you think it's a bd-re
Today I did same with Vista. Again the problem with the read-only
flag. Except this time after I uncheck the read-only box (and press
Apply etc), I find that the files continues to be read only. When I
reopen Properties I find the read-only box has been rechecked. I go
round and round several
Or zip them.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
Today I did same with Vista. Again the problem with the read-only
flag. Except this time after I uncheck the read-only box (and press
Apply etc), I find that the files continues to be read only. When I
On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:14 PM, mike wrote:
My other thought was...you are still using cds?
Vista won't read any of our HFS formatted thumb drives and we had a
pile of CDs handy.
Thanks for the other ideas. Zipping the directory looks most
promising. Zipping is built into Mac OS. I guess I
There is a free one built into windows also...not sure how good/bad it is, I
always install winrar first thing on new windows installs.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:53 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:14 PM, mike wrote:
My other thought was...you are still using cds?
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