Re: copying wav files to usb drive



On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:55 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I had a mix of wav files ripped from various CDs that I wanted to save
> to an external USB hard drive. (I'm still experimenting with the sound
> quality of the mp3 format.) All the files except those originally from
> one particular CD copied without problems -- but for those 3 files
> Konqueror gave me an "unable to copy" message. The strange thing was I
> was able to copy these files to directories elsewhere on internal hard
> drive but not to the external USB one. Is this some sort of weird copy
> protection scheme? Is there any way around it?

What filesystem is on the usb drive? Some of them (FAT, for instance)
have restrictions on what characters can be in filenames. Others (FAT
falls into this group, AFAIK) have limitations on file size...

Steve


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