Files to USB problem

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GaseousClay

27-06-2009

Originally Posted by Sandy.1:
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Is this how we are defining ' just one of those incompatible sticks' or is there something else that I am missing.”

No the stick is fine the problem is that you need to open the location that you want to send the files to click the > button to select the right hand pane and press the ok button to toggle the location folder open or closed ... open appears with about three fullstops next to the folder icon

zetor

27-06-2009

Originally Posted by Sandy.1:
“I have been trying to use an 8 GB stick which I have formatted as FAT 32. The Foxsat recognises that the USB stick is there but File Manager has the green copy function greyed out.

Is this how we are defining ' just one of those incompatible sticks' or is there something else that I am missing.”

Have you tried this guide here: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...s+to+usb+stick
A list of USB sticks that work and don't work would be handy, I don't know if such a list has been started here or not.

savvy

27-06-2009

You probably haven't opened the partition on the USB stick in the right pane of the File Manager.

Open File Manager using Opt+, you should see your recorded folders on the HDD on the left, and your USB on the right with a folder called sda1, highlight this folder & click OK, then navigate back to the left, and choose the file you want to copy, it should now allow the green Copy function.

Copy is disabled if you have already copied once from BBC HD, and ITV HD does not even allow "copy once".

Rgds.

Les.

Sandy.1

28-06-2009

Originally Posted by savvy:
“You probably haven't opened the partition on the USB stick in the right pane of the File Manager.

Open File Manager using Opt+, you should see your recorded folders on the HDD on the left, and your USB on the right with a folder called sda1, highlight this folder & click OK, then navigate back to the left, and choose the file you want to copy, it should now allow the green Copy function.

Copy is disabled if you have already copied once from BBC HD, and ITV HD does not even allow "copy once".

Rgds.

Les.”

Thank you Les.

That worked a treat and I now have have 3 files on the USB stick for the trial copy that I made, a MPEG TS file, an HMT file and a NTS file.

All of this seems very similar to the files I get from my Technomate and the TS file is now playing on my PC using Media Player Classic.

Now the next problem is copying onto an external hard drive.

My Technomate requires formatting to FAT 32 but how about the HUMAX.

germanycalling

28-06-2009

Originally Posted by Sandy.1:
“My Technomate requires formatting to FAT 32 but how about the HUMAX.”

Best option is using the EXT 3 format. I use a 1Tb external drive in this format and it works a treat!

savvy

28-06-2009

Originally Posted by Sandy.1:
“Thank you Les.

That worked a treat and I now have have 3 files on the USB stick for the trial copy that I made, a MPEG TS file, an HMT file and a NTS file.

All of this seems very similar to the files I get from my Technomate and the TS file is now playing on my PC using Media Player Classic.

Now the next problem is copying onto an external hard drive.

My Technomate requires formatting to FAT 32 but how about the HUMAX.”

No problem.

As germanycalling says, best to use Ext3, you can use Fat32, but you will inevitably come up against the 4GB file limit with Fat32.

You need to use Linux to format to Ext3; if you don't know how to do this, see here for links to some excellent instructions.

Rgds.

Les.

zetor

28-06-2009

Originally Posted by swedish cook:
“We can but hope that the much discussed firmware update will bring us FTP* and all this USB madness can be consigned to the history books.
HDR.”

It did just occur to me if anyone had tried to do an FTP transfer to see if it is actually disabled?

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