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transfer exel report to a usb flash drive F
Belt AND suspenders.
"Dave Peterson" wrote: I, too, have it set for Quick Removal. But I still use the system tray icon. (lack of faith???) JLatham wrote: Thanks to both of you for that insight. I understand the logic perfectly - and those are reasonable concerns. I know what a disaster it can be if you forget to properly 'eject' a USB drive without flushing the buffers. My safeguards? Caution. 16GB Flash drive (3.5 GB in use, 11.5 available) - I drag stuff back and forth between home/work with this rascal. One final 'tweak' I make on the connection to this particular device, which is what can make it slow when working with it, but adds a little safety to even accidentally removing it: I have it "optimized for quick removal" which means that the writes to it are not cached by Windows, but happen in real time. A performance hit, but less risk of loss by accidentally removing it. The option info even states "...you can disconnect this device without using the Safe Removal icon." Although I always use that anyhow. To get the My Computer | Right-click on the device/drive and choose [Properties] then to the Hardware tab and pick the device from the list in it and click the [Properties] button on that tab. Next window that opens, choose the [Policies] tab and there are 2 options available: Optimize for Quick Removal, and (the default) Optimize for Performance. The default Optimize for Performance *requires* you to use the Safe Removal icon or otherwise 'eject' the device or else you risk file corruption/loss if the Windows cache buffer hasn't been flushed. Again, thanks for the info - valuable, and I agree that your recommendations ARE the wise ones to offer to others as they are more likely to keep one and all out of trouble in more than one way :-) "Dave Peterson" wrote: I recommend never opening a file from any removeable media--just because it could be removed and screw up when I try to save it. And I recommend not saving directly to the flashdrive (or any removeable media) for the same reasons Ragdyer stated--albeit, they amount of space available isn't as big a concern as with floppies. But by saving to the harddrive first and copying to the flash drive, I know that I have a backup. I guess I just don't trust those things enough to use them directly (and for the only copy). This is more of a gut feeling than anything else for me. But as a general recommendation to others, I think it's a reasonable approach. JLatham wrote: Curiosity question: I've seen others recommend not working directly to/from USB Flash drive also. Why not? I often do it and haven't lost anything - slow as snails swimming in molasses some times, but no corrupted files or anything. "Ragdyer" wrote: *SAVE* to your hard drive, THEN, Use Windows explorer to *COPY* to the flash drive! *DON'T* save to the flash drive! -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "rexdaleyou" wrote in message ... transfer exel doc.to new flash drive 2.0 -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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