04-21-2019, 01:52 PM
The flash drives are all formatted as FAT32, I believe.
But, BUT - I just tried using your recommended method of "Open as administrator" and this time it worked, so that is really great.
Like, REALLY GREAT. :-) However, when I try to remove the drive after copying a small file to it, it tells me there is data being copied and the drive is busy; that never went away even after waiting quite a while and I finally just told it to eject it anyway. Then I plugged it back in and checked the files, which were there. I copied another file to the flash drive using the Administrator window and again, it copied correctly but the system did not want to let me eject it ("Target is busy") and it didn't give me the "eject anyway" option. I finally just pulled it out of the port without ejecting it first, which I don't like to do. And then the next time I plugged it back in I was able to copy files to it without the Admin window! It seems like every time I start to get a handle on the problem it throws up something unexpected, which everybody hates.
But it brings up the question of why can I copy files to the flash drive okay when the system has been rebooted without having to use the Administrator window?
But thanks so much for that suggestion!
But, BUT - I just tried using your recommended method of "Open as administrator" and this time it worked, so that is really great.
Like, REALLY GREAT. :-) However, when I try to remove the drive after copying a small file to it, it tells me there is data being copied and the drive is busy; that never went away even after waiting quite a while and I finally just told it to eject it anyway. Then I plugged it back in and checked the files, which were there. I copied another file to the flash drive using the Administrator window and again, it copied correctly but the system did not want to let me eject it ("Target is busy") and it didn't give me the "eject anyway" option. I finally just pulled it out of the port without ejecting it first, which I don't like to do. And then the next time I plugged it back in I was able to copy files to it without the Admin window! It seems like every time I start to get a handle on the problem it throws up something unexpected, which everybody hates.
But it brings up the question of why can I copy files to the flash drive okay when the system has been rebooted without having to use the Administrator window?
But thanks so much for that suggestion!