Files moved to flash drive dissapear
Hi All,I have experenced a glitch which looses files being MOVED to a flash drive. Now, I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software bug but here is what happened.First the hardware:* Acer aspire one NetBook* Flash Drive 4 GB Lexar Firefly (same flash drive I used for the Windows 7 Install)* Windows 7 RC1How to reproduce the glitch:* Created a native Word 2007 document and saved it to the desktop (yes Word was closed and the file saved) * Needed to move the file off the NetBook because it is shared * Plugged in my Firefly flash drive, and the option to run setup.exe or open the drive in Explorer appeared* I selected open in Explorer* I click the New Folder Button and create a folder named "Files", I open the folder* I Right Clicked on the file and Dragged and dropped it into the "Files" folder, and I select MOVE* The file appears in the "Files"folder* I safely remove the Firefly flash drive and insert itinto my desktop computer for transfer to storage* The File is no longer in the "Files" Folder, and no longer on the desktop of the NetBook - lost in Space :(* I re-create the File from autosave data and MOVE the file as before with the same result* Ditto for the above for a third time - I'm starting to clue in here* I repeated this for a forth time but COPY instead of MOVE, this time it works as expected (I now delete the file from the NetBook)* I realized that that this had happened to me about a 6 - 7 weeks previous to this while riding a ferry to the mainland, I thought I has been inattentive and failed to save the file to the Flash drive but apparently this may not be the caseI am getting eaten by Mosi's on the deck, and going inside now! Cheers, Mongojim
July 22nd, 2009 7:53am

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