copying wav files to usb drive -- fixed

Gerhard Magnus magnus at agora.rdrop.com
Wed Jan 25 01:23:46 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:55 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I had a mix of wav files ripped from various CDs that I wanted to save
> to an external USB hard drive.  (I'm still experimenting with the sound
> quality of the mp3 format.)  All the files except those originally from
> one particular CD copied without problems -- but for those 3 files
> Konqueror gave me an "unable to copy" message.  The strange thing was I
> was able to copy these files to directories elsewhere on internal hard
> drive but not to the external USB one.  Is this some sort of weird copy
> protection scheme?  Is there any way around it?
> 
> What kind of file system?  Ext3 ?  Reiser?  VFat?  NTFS ?
>
>HTH/Bill

Thanks for the heads up -- what was I thinking?  Of course vfat would
choke on a filename like
Oasis-(What's_the_Story)_Morning_Glory?-Wonderwall.wav
Another vote for linux....

Jerry




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