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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 08:40:38 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Thumb drive was accessible in eCS, then it wasn't . .

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Ray replied"

> My experience seems to be; if I plug something in
and > eCS says "hey, you plugged something in" and
gives it
> a drive letter, it will probably read it. If I have
> to click refresh to get a drive letter, it probably
> won't read it.

Not the case here. I've noted that the automatic USB
detection has been present in some of the eCS 2 beta
or RC versions, but not in others. And even if it is
present, it's not 100 % -- I think I've just
demonstrated that.

--- Robert Blair
wrote:

> In my case if I insert a USB drive I have to click
> refresh and wait for an hour
> or so before it shows up. What I do to get it to
> show up immediately in the
> drives folder is go to the command line and do a DIR
> of the drive letter it
> should be. After if is in the drives folder
> everything works without problems.

On my 1.2GA partition, there never was any automatic
detection (that did not come until quite a bit later),
but I did not have the problem you describe. After
attaching a USB device (that was going to work), I'd
have to hit Refresh Removable Devices once or twice,
and *then* if I single-clicked on 3 or 4 desktop icons
in succession -- it doesn't matter which ones -- by
the time I went back to the Drives object in eCenter,
the new drive letter would have shown up, and I could
begin using it. A few seconds, rather than an hour.
Just out of curiosity, you might give that method a
try.

But -- obviously -- we're not all running the exact
same configuration or all obtaining the same results.
Whether it's driver versions or whatever, there must
be some different variables at work here.

Jordan

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