Images won't copy to thumb drive?

<p>I'm trying to copy 1.75 gig of images to a 2 gig thumb drive. It stops at image #156 every time despite having used less than a third of the available space on the drive.</p>

<p>I tried reformatting the thumb drive</p>

<p>I tried using a different program for the copy</p>

<p>I tried to copy just one image after the stop to no avail</p>

<p>I cleared my recycle bin</p>

<p>Anyone else ever experience this?</p>

<p>This is happening for multiple thumb drives or just this one?<br>

Are you receiving a specific error message?</p>

 

<p>multiple drives</p>

<p>error message in bridge is, "Unable to complete operation"<br>

error message in windows is "Cannot copy etc, the directory or file cannot be created"</p>

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<p>Booray,</p>

<p>Have you tried copying the images to anything ELSE, like an external hard drive? I'd want to know if there's a disk error that's causing the read part of the copy operation to fail. I would kind of expect a more informative error message if that were the case, but I don't know for sure that you can expect that.</p>

<p>I'm also wondering if the copy operation is creating a cache on the target drive that is causing a problem. Have you tried copying the files in smaller parcels? In other words, instead of dragging all 500 images at once over to the target drive so you can leave and get some coffee, try copying 100 images at a time.</p>

<p>Will </p>

<p>I tried copying in 100 files chunks and it stopped at the same point. First 100 files went fine, second 100 stopped with same error message</p>

<p>I tried copying 200 files to my external drive and it went fine with no problem at all.</p>

<p>With a freshly formatted drive, try creating a sub-folder ("New Folder" or whatever name you like) and copying the files into it instead of into the root of the drive.</p>

<p>Yes, put the images into a subdirectory, not into the root directory. In some filesystems, there's a hard limit to the number of files you can put in the root directory, but this generally does not apply to subdirectories.</p>

<p>That did it!</p>

<p>booray, if you haven't tuned out already -- what operating system are you using that appears to have this limitation? (never know when it might come up again!)</p>

<p>While this might not have been the cause in your case, also note, that the capacity given for any drive is referring to its raw, <strong>unformatted</strong> state.<br /> The actual, <strong>usable</strong> capacity is always lower. For instance my 4 GB thumb drive only has a capacity of 3.6 GB for holding data.</p>

<p>Here is some info on file system limitations. </p>

<p>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940351.aspx</p>

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<p>It's not an operating system limitation; it's a filesystem limitation. Removable flash media, such as USB keys and memory cards for cameras, almost always use some variation on FAT filesystems that came from the DOS/Windows world (often FAT16 on lower-capacity devices and FAT32 on higher-capacity devices). But the various limitations are built into the filesystem design and will apply even if you're accessing the drive from some other operating system.</p>