[ubuntu-uk] File copying problem to USB flash drive

[Philip Stubbs]

2009/12/25 David King <linuxman at avoura.com>:
> When trying to copy video files to a USB flash drive, once the file has
> copied over, the original gets smaller, down to either 96 bytes or 0
> bytes. The copy also sometimes shrinks to the same size.
>
> What could be causing this and how can I keep the files intact on the
> hard drive?
>
> I am using Ubuntu 9.04 on an AMD64 PC. The USB flash drive is 16 GB in size.

Exactly what commands are you using to create the copy? Are you using
the graphical interface or from the command line?

-- 
Philip Stubbs