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Copying files to flash drive and/or CD

Asked by Loren Bliss

I am trying to copy Open Office Word files to a flash drive or a CD and am completely stymied because the process is totally unlike that of copying files from Microsoft. I have no clue how to go about it (am not a nurd, just a writer for whom the computer is a Rube Goldberg typewriter and file cabinet, a computer-illiterate trying to make backup files) -- in other words, you will have to please explain this to me as if I were an idiot.

Thank you,

Loren Bliss

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

it's just a matter of clicking on the file you want to copy, then dragging the file to your flash drive. you can do this with the nautilus file manager. click places, go to where the file is, then drag it to the usb flash drive that appears on the left pane.

copying to cd is a different matter. you have to have the cd formatted to work as a disk first.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

oh. to ensure that your file is written, eject the flash drive before you unplug it.

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Loren Bliss (lorenbliss) said : 		#3

Thank you, but this doesn't work, for two reasons:

(1)-There is no place -- no destination (no USB flash drive appearance) -- to which to drag the file; I can copy the file, but the same problem prevails: no place to paste it. (I can open either Documents OR the FD [Kingston] but not both simultaneously.)

(2)-Many of the files I need to archive are on the hard drive from my dead HP/Microsoft computer which I had installed on this machine as Old Data; this cannot be reached at all from Places. Moreover when I try to copy the photography into the Ubuntu document file it crashes the system unless I do it one image at a time -- something that would take literally months.

Thanks again,
Loren Bliss

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Loren Bliss (lorenbliss) said : 		#4

Thank you, but this doesn't work, for two reasons:

(1)-There is no place -- no destination (no USB flash drive appearance) -- to which to drag the file; I can copy the file, but the same problem prevails: no place to paste it. (I can open either Documents OR the FD [Kingston] but not both simultaneously.)

(2)-Many of the files I need to archive are on the hard drive from my dead HP/Microsoft computer which I had installed on this machine as Old Data; this cannot be reached at all from Places. Moreover when I try to copy the photography into the Ubuntu document file it crashes the system unless I do it one image at a time -- something that would take literally months.

Thanks again,
Loren Bliss

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#5

>(1)-There is no place -- no destination (no USB flash drive appearance) -- to which to drag the file; I >can copy the file, but the same problem prevails: no place to paste it. (I can open either Documents >OR the FD [Kingston] but not both simultaneously.)

You can open a second window from the file menu, with open new window. You can then drag between these two. Also, you can use the "copy" function (ctrl+C), then browse to wherever you want to put the file, then paste (Ctrl+V)

>(2)-Many of the files I need to archive are on the hard drive from my dead HP/Microsoft computer >which I had installed on this machine as Old Data; this cannot be reached at all from Places.

Try looking in the /media folder (file system->media)

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Loren Bliss (lorenbliss) said : 		#6

Thank you.