[NTLUG:Discuss] Invisible File

Terry trryhend at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 13:54:27 CST 2005


On Tuesday 06 December 2005 03:54 pm, Tom Tumelty wrote:
> On 12/6/05, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 12:16 pm, you wrote:
> > > I have tried both ways, unmounting and removing the
> > > floppy and just removing the floppy and taking to the
> > > other machine. The file is still invisible.
> > >
> > > Every time i try to unmount the flash drive it tells
> > > me "device is busy"
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Tom
> >
> > The "device is busy" error usually indicates that you have an application
> > still utilizing the data on the disk.
> >
> > If you are working from the command line,
> > It is also important to note that if you cd to the device's mount point,
> > you
> > will need to cd back out of it before you can  umount the device, (or you
> > will get "device is busy" error.
>
> Thank You, I did not realize that I had to cd back out from the device
> mount point.
> Although, I usually use xfce and mount or unmount from the file manager.
> recently xfce quit working and i am using kde until i get time to

[For clarification]: I think you mean konqueror (when you say kde).


> reinstall. I still get this error when i try to unmount from the file
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