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

[David King]

I am clicking and dragging from within Nautilus. I also tried from the 
menus, Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste.

It did not happen every time, but too often for comfort. At least I was 
able to recreate the first video file that disappeared (created using 
Open Shot Video editor). This problem has not occured before, only with 
a files created with Open Shot.


David King




Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 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?
>
>