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Date:	Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:06:19 -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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This may have come up here at some time in the past,
but I'm wondering what might have caused this. I was
copying To / From this PNY 4G stick with both eCS and
W2K, for awhile, but now it can only be used with Win.
eCS shows the drive as a drive letter, but if I try
to access it, it shows "Empty" and can't be opened
with Drives in eCenter (It is *not* empty, having
about 1G worth of stuff on it, at present.) Or ZTree
will toss up a "Not a DOS Disk" error message. I
never changed whatever the native formatting was on
the stick -- most likely FAT-16. The only thing that
occurs to me is that I saved a few LFN files on it
with Win, which would have been within subdirectories
that (I think) did not themselves have long file
names. I'll confirm that next time I look at in Win,
as well as whether or not WP Root.SF and the other --
potentially troublesome -- EA file happen to be there.

Is this situation reversible, without the risk of
trashing what's on the stick ?

I frequently save groups of things in Zip archives. I
could well be wrong, but I think that does not involve
EAs ?

Jordan

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