Re: [mtools] mtools with Konqueror interface

[Alain Knaff]

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:41, Santonier family wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using mtools to access my USB key "gently" with Linux (otherwise
> files get erased when the key is close to full).
>
> It works fine with the command line. Example:
> mcopy u:/file.pdf ~/tmp/file.pdf
> where mtools.conf contains
> drive u: file="/dev/sdc1"
>
> *but* if I use Konqueror and point it to "floppy:/u", and I drag and
> drop a file from the Usb key (u:) to my ~/tmp directory, it gets
> corrupted while keeping the exact same size. More precisely it seems
> that it get byte-swapped (on the first bytes at least?).
>
> This Konqueror interface to mtools used to work on the versions of
> mtools and Konqueror I had on my Mandrake Linux 8.2, and it nio longer
> works with the vesions that come with Mandrake Linux 10.1 (mtools 3.9.9
> and KDE 3.2).
>
> Help appreciated.
> Best regards,
>
>     Laurent.

Although similar bugs have been reported by other people as well, I
could not reproduce the problem here (konqueror 3.3.2, mtools 3.9.9
20040505, SuSE 9.2, tested with a Cruzer memory card reader that plugs
into USB).

Regards,

Alain

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