<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:46 PM, David Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kd7uch@gmail.com" target="_blank">kd7uch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello, all;<br><br></div>Recently I have been using a bootable CD of CHIRP to take with me to radio club (Voice of Idaho) activities to help newbies program their radios. Works great, but I thought that a thumb drive would be handier since I could store some data files on it. Now, I have a fair familiarity with Linux but this stumps me. I created the boot-able thumb-drive and copied the CHIRP data files to the documents folder on it. They went on with no error messages and opened in CHIRP. Everything seemed fine until I rebooted the system and found that those data files were gone. <br>
<br></div>So, I am wondering why they were gone and what can I do to fix this. <br clear="all"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><div><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>David<br><a href="mailto:kd7uch@arrl.net" target="_blank">kd7uch@arrl.net</a><br>
</div></div></div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">David,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">How did you create your bootable flash drive? When I made mine I used a freeware utility called UNetbootin. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">One of the options is to setup the "Space used to preserve files across reboots". If I remember, I took the size of my flash drive and subtracted 500 meg for the CHIRP CD and then allocated something close to the remainder for preserving files.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jim KC9HI<br></div></div>