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--></style></head><body><div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Calibri,'Segoe UI',Meiryo,'Microsoft YaHei UI','Microsoft JhengHei UI','Malgun Gothic','Khmer UI','Nirmala UI',Tunga,'Lao UI',Ebrima,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div>could be that you have a fake drive . when it declares a larger size it writes to the air</div><div data-signatureblock="true"><div> </div><div>Sent from Windows Mail</div><div> </div></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face="Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'Khmer UI', 'Nirmala UI', Tunga, 'Lao UI', Ebrima, sans-serif" style='line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "Khmer UI", "Nirmala UI", Tunga, "Lao UI", Ebrima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;'><b>From:</b> Jim Unroe<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion of CHIRP</font></div></div><div> </div><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 title="mailto:kd7uch@gmail.com" href="mailto:kd7uch@gmail.com" target="_parent">kd7uch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><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 title="mailto:kd7uch@arrl.net" href="mailto:kd7uch@arrl.net" target="_parent">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>
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