[PLUG] Transfer from thumb drive to Windows computer

[Robert Miesen]

Do you know if you have the same problem on windows machines other than 
the ones at PSU? If you don't, then you might consider asking a system 
admin or a librarian at PSU for some help on figuring out why their 
machines aren't seeing your pdf file.


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> So today I was at PSU and needed to print out a document that I had
> created in OO.o Writer. I had my 512 MB thumb drive with me. So first I
> exported from Writer as PDF, then used Konqueror to copy the PDF file
> to the thumb drive. To do so all I needed to do was stick the thumb
> drive in a USB port -- it's blue light came on and Konqueror saw it
> immediately. Evidently it just auto-mounts. Before copying the PDF file
> to the thumb drive I decided I no longer needed any of the files that
> were on it, so I deleted them all. The drive was empty when I copied
> the PDF file to it.
>
> Having done that I schlepped to the computer lab at the library. I
> logged into one of the university's Windows computers, stuck the thumb
> drive in one of its USB ports, and tried to print the PDF file. Big
> problem -- no PDF file. The Windows computer saw the thumb drive, but
> instead of a PDF file it saw a file called reglog.txt. I opened the
> reglog.txt file in Notepad and it appeared to be tags, like field names
> for a database. Except mostly the tags were empty, although a few had
> data in them. And the data was definitely from my computer -- one
> "field" had my first name, another had my hotpop e-mail address.
> Definitely the file came from my Ubuntu-64 Breezy computer.
>
> Note: The thumb drive is relatively new. It has never been mounted on
> my Windows desktop. It has only been used on the Linux laptop, and then
> only once before today.
>
> At that point I took my laptop out, booted it up, put the thumb drive
> back in a USB port, and all that appears to be on it is the PDF file.
> No file named reglog.txt. The PDF file opens for viewing in Konqueror
> and is exactly the document that I created.
>
> I finally got past the problem by using my Linux laptop (sitting on a
> chair next to me at the lab) to e-mail the file to my pdx.edu e-mail
> account, then logging into the account on the university's computer to
> retrieve the file. 
>
> Before this happens to me again, I need to figure out what is going on.
> I hope someone here can uninscrute the inscrutable madness that caused
> this bizarro situation. Any ideas?
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