From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:01:04 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 796 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 05 February 2004 Number 796 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 USB Camera Trick? : Dennis Nolan 2 Re: USB Camera Trick? : Michael Barrow" 3 Re: How much? : David Forrester" 4 Re: USB Camera Trick? : David Shearer" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:12:14 +1100 From: Dennis Nolan Subject: USB Camera Trick? I got into serious trouble today. I took some photos and I think I tried to be smart and tried dragging the first folder showing in the USB MSD drive icon. I think I should have opened that one and dragged the next folder. Anyway I got a message reporting EA corruption. I then could not open that folder. Tried a command prompt window, could get to the drive and do a dir, cd to the subdirectory and the dir command does nothing. That is it made no report at all. The photos were still in the camera, but I couldn't get at them. I tried changing drivers, usb ports, nothing seemed to work. Then I had a flash of brilliance, I opened a DOS window. Now I had command line access to the full directory structure, and the image files were there. Changed to another drive and downloaded them. Had to use copy, xcopy could not access the drive. I should have twigged at the start when the error message mentioned EA's. So when corrupted EA's cause a problem, open a DOS window, and with a bit of luck, your problem's solved. Regards Dennis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:44:26 GMT From: "Michael Barrow" Subject: Re: USB Camera Trick? ** Reply to message from Dennis Nolan on Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:12:14 +1100 > I got into serious trouble today. > > I took some photos and I think I tried to be smart and tried dragging > the first folder showing in the USB MSD drive icon. I think I should > have opened that one and dragged the next folder. > > Anyway I got a message reporting EA corruption. I then could not open > that folder. SNIP >Then I had a flash of brilliance, I opened a DOS window. > > Now I had command line access to the full directory structure, and the > image files were there. > > Changed to another drive and downloaded them. > > Had to use copy, xcopy could not access the drive. > > I should have twigged at the start when the error message mentioned EA's. > > So when corrupted EA's cause a problem, open a DOS window, and with a > bit of luck, your problem's solved. > > Regards > > Dennis. > > Dennis, I had a similar problem recently with a corruption in a folder that my machine stopped with. I used File Commander /2 which gave me access to the files so I could copy them and move them to a new folder to remove the corruption. Once again thank you Brian Havard. Regards, Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:59:10 +1100 (EDT) From: "David Forrester" Subject: Re: How much? On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:15:51 +1000, David Shearer wrote: >Isn't it a function of the relative scarcity of OS/2 1.00 vs versions 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0? I am sure if someone >posted a copy of Windows 1.0, still with thr box and manuals that would also be a collectors item, that would >be worth something? I assumed it was a collector, as I can't think of any reason else someone would want 1.0. 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 may be usable, but, 1.0 can only be considered as a curiosity. And or the collectors, my eBay search found this one today The title says "IBM Promotional Jacket with Windows Theme", but it is actually an OS/2 jacket with "Throw your Windows wide open". -- David Forrester davidfor at internode.on dot net http://www.os2world dot com/djfos2/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:19:34 +1000 From: "David Shearer" Subject: Re: USB Camera Trick? I use FOTOGET/2 to transfer the photos from my usb msd drive - it avoids the problems of EAs etc. It works very well - a great piece of simple software. David On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:12:14 +1100, Dennis Nolan wrote: >I got into serious trouble today. > >I took some photos and I think I tried to be smart and tried dragging >the first folder showing in the USB MSD drive icon. I think I should >have opened that one and dragged the next folder. > >Anyway I got a message reporting EA corruption. I then could not open >that folder. > >Tried a command prompt window, could get to the drive and do a dir, cd >to the subdirectory and the dir command does nothing. That is it made no >report at all. > >The photos were still in the camera, but I couldn't get at them. I tried >changing drivers, usb ports, nothing seemed to work. > >Then I had a flash of brilliance, I opened a DOS window. > >Now I had command line access to the full directory structure, and the >image files were there. > >Changed to another drive and downloaded them. > >Had to use copy, xcopy could not access the drive. > >I should have twigged at the start when the error message mentioned EA's. > >So when corrupted EA's cause a problem, open a DOS window, and with a >bit of luck, your problem's solved. > >Regards > >Dennis. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------