Flashsticks----- Original Message -----
>From: leech, helen
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:01 PM
>Subject: Flashsticks
>I've just had an interesting problem brought to my attention. Apparently
people using memory sticks - flash sticks? - in our
>public access terminals run a risk of losing data. I've never seen a flash
stick in action, but I believe you need access to the
>computer desktop so you can eject the stick safely. Because we don't allow
people to access the desktop, they are having
>to take out the stick without using the eject button, which apparently has
lost at least one of our customers data.
>Has anybody else experienced this, and do you have a solution?
As long as you don't pull the stick out right after accessing it, and give
it ten/twenty seconds, as you would do if you were using a floppy disc, then
you shouldn't have a problem as I've found in my experience of using them.
The eject thing can be ignored. Similarly the computer sometimes says when
you put the stick in that you have to restart the computer, I've found that
if I click 'no' on the restart box I can still access the memory with no
problem.
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Loz
"What is it about? It's about 'about', it's about 'aboutness', it's about
how nothing is about what it seems to be about and the structure of the book
is roundabout but then it goes shooting off." - Ken Campbell on Philip K.
Dick's 'VALIS'.
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