On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:55 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I had a mix of wav files ripped from various CDs that I wanted to save > to an external USB hard drive. (I'm still experimenting with the sound > quality of the mp3 format.) All the files except those originally from > one particular CD copied without problems -- but for those 3 files > Konqueror gave me an "unable to copy" message. The strange thing was I > was able to copy these files to directories elsewhere on internal hard > drive but not to the external USB one. Is this some sort of weird copy > protection scheme? Is there any way around it? > > What kind of file system? Ext3 ? Reiser? VFat? NTFS ? > >HTH/Bill Thanks for the heads up -- what was I thinking? Of course vfat would choke on a filename like Oasis-(What's_the_Story)_Morning_Glory?-Wonderwall.wav Another vote for linux.... Jerry