On Sunday 17 January 2021, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi all! > > Anno domini 2021 Sat, 16 Jan 19:41:35 -0800 > > William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > > [...] > > > > The problem is that Linux systems in general seem to have a problem > > sometimes with mounting a flash drive or SD card, but only after they > > have been used in another device, such as a smartphone or a non-Linux > > system. > > > > I put a large music collection on a new SD card, for listening while I am > > outdoors walking, but when I went to change some of the items, now I find > > that my Linux system refuses to mount the drive. The same has happened > > with fat32 flash drives. > > > > This does not happen with other hard drives, such as an external hard > > drive that is formatted NTFS; only with fat32 flash drives or (I forget > > the filesystem here) SD cards. > > > > Also I believe that smartphones can really mess up the data on SD cards, > > as I had a lot of weirdness there. For example: a folder for one artist > > was instead filled with music from an entirely different artist. This > > could not have been a mistake on my part, as I have the originals, all > > tidy and organized, and the contents of the flash drive were first > > organized on a folder that resides in my desktop computer. Thus all I > > need to do is copy the contents of that folder to my SD card. > > > > It is only when I tried to copy the contents of that SD card to another > > location, then suddenly everything got messed up. > > > > So I believe that Kate might be onto something there, that formatting > > with Linux first could eliminate some of that mess. > > > > Bill > > ____________________________________________________ > > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Web mail archive available at > > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydes > >ktop.org > > Looks like this is complints about FAT32 are not the cause of my > observations. Please see the attached screenshot: upper half of windows > uses system:/media/sdb and shows the describes malfuncions (i.e.: <del> not > working, no autorefresh), the lower half shows the very device but where > it's mounted in the filesystem as /media/toshiba and there it works as > expected (i.e.: <del> working and autorefresh working). > > So this is definitly a TDE problem. Is there a way to get rid of > "system:/media/" and just use the real mountpoint instead? > > Nik Ok I just checked out all the media* options and delete appears in all of them. What distro are you using. Try using a live CD and see what happens. Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
