09-28-2018, 09:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-28-2018, 09:50 PM by Tyrannocaster.)
Until today I have been able to use all my usb drives with Linux Lite and had no problems, but today I tried to copy a 225 meg file to a new Kingston 16 gig drive and nothing appeared to happen; the progress bar stayed at the beginning with no change until after several minutes I finally got tired of sitting there and ejected the drive. When I tried putting it in my Windows PC it asked me if I wanted to scan it to fix it, so I reformatted it. Then I tried the same thing again with the same result.
This time, rather than scanning or reformatting it, I just looked at the contents on the PC and the copied file appears to be there. This behavior should not be happening, obviously. It seems like the window manager is freezing, I guess, but I don't really know enough about Linux to say that authoritatively. In this case, I have installed (and am using) PCManFM, which I prefer to Thunar. When I tried looking at the USB drive with a different window no files showed up while this was happening.
Any ideas on this? Funny, how for a new Linux user, everything is mysterious. :-)
UPDATE: I tried with a different USB drive and the same thing happened. I used a different file to copy, too. It just sits there and says "File operation is in progress..." with no progress shown in the bar at all.
This time, rather than scanning or reformatting it, I just looked at the contents on the PC and the copied file appears to be there. This behavior should not be happening, obviously. It seems like the window manager is freezing, I guess, but I don't really know enough about Linux to say that authoritatively. In this case, I have installed (and am using) PCManFM, which I prefer to Thunar. When I tried looking at the USB drive with a different window no files showed up while this was happening.
Any ideas on this? Funny, how for a new Linux user, everything is mysterious. :-)
UPDATE: I tried with a different USB drive and the same thing happened. I used a different file to copy, too. It just sits there and says "File operation is in progress..." with no progress shown in the bar at all.