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USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks
I have a small USB flash/thumb drive on my keychain
that I use for a variety of uses... just in case type things. Anyway - I have repeatedly had problems with using any of my USB flash drives with a variety of photo printing kiosks at the local stores.... the Kodak one, along with the other brand-x types. It's not just my single keychain flash, it's any of the different brands laying around the house - always have a problem reading them in the kiosk. In fact, I'm sure that at one point, one of my flash drives was trashed by a kiosk, and is no longer even recognized by our laptops. I usually try to print - have problems reading the drive, come home and re-copy the photo files to an extra SD Card and go back and use the SD Card, which works just fine. It's not even a large 2GB+ drive size issue, some are 2GB drives or 1GB, some are more. Anyone else had probs with using USB drives & the kiosks ???? -- / _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ No Good Deed - Goes Unpunished |
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USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks
ps56k wrote:
I have a small USB flash/thumb drive on my keychain that I use for a variety of uses... just in case type things. Anyway - I have repeatedly had problems with using any of my USB flash drives with a variety of photo printing kiosks at the local stores.... the Kodak one, along with the other brand-x types. It's not just my single keychain flash, it's any of the different brands laying around the house - always have a problem reading them in the kiosk. In fact, I'm sure that at one point, one of my flash drives was trashed by a kiosk, and is no longer even recognized by our laptops. I usually try to print - have problems reading the drive, come home and re-copy the photo files to an extra SD Card and go back and use the SD Card, which works just fine. It's not even a large 2GB+ drive size issue, some are 2GB drives or 1GB, some are more. Anyone else had probs with using USB drives & the kiosks ???? If I owned such a kiosk I would do everything to prevent my kiosk from being infected by someone's USB drive. Daddy |
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On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:23:09 -0400, Daddy wrote:
ps56k wrote: I have a small USB flash/thumb drive on my keychain that I use for a variety of uses... just in case type things. Anyway - I have repeatedly had problems with using any of my USB flash drives with a variety of photo printing kiosks at the local stores.... the Kodak one, along with the other brand-x types. It's not just my single keychain flash, it's any of the different brands laying around the house - always have a problem reading them in the kiosk. In fact, I'm sure that at one point, one of my flash drives was trashed by a kiosk, and is no longer even recognized by our laptops. I usually try to print - have problems reading the drive, come home and re-copy the photo files to an extra SD Card and go back and use the SD Card, which works just fine. It's not even a large 2GB+ drive size issue, some are 2GB drives or 1GB, some are more. Anyone else had probs with using USB drives & the kiosks ???? If I owned such a kiosk I would do everything to prevent my kiosk from being infected by someone's USB drive. If you don't insist on MS, it's generally not much of a problem. Daddy |
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USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:23:09 -0400, Daddy wrote:
ps56k wrote: I have a small USB flash/thumb drive on my keychain that I use for a variety of uses... just in case type things. Anyway - I have repeatedly had problems with using any of my USB flash drives with a variety of photo printing kiosks at the local stores.... the Kodak one, along with the other brand-x types. It's not just my single keychain flash, it's any of the different brands laying around the house - always have a problem reading them in the kiosk. In fact, I'm sure that at one point, one of my flash drives was trashed by a kiosk, and is no longer even recognized by our laptops. I usually try to print - have problems reading the drive, come home and re-copy the photo files to an extra SD Card and go back and use the SD Card, which works just fine. It's not even a large 2GB+ drive size issue, some are 2GB drives or 1GB, some are more. Anyone else had probs with using USB drives & the kiosks ???? If I owned such a kiosk I would do everything to prevent my kiosk from being infected by someone's USB drive. Daddy Which is odd, because many USB flash drives use micro-SD format chips in them (or seem to), and SD cards seem to work according to the OP. My keychain flash-drive just uses interchangeable Micro-SD/HC cards. The whole thing is just the width of a USB plug/port's contacts, not even including a USB plug's external width, and about two times as long as the contacts'-width. Much smaller than the average key on a keychain. The only drawback with it being so small, is that I accidentally left it in a notebook I was repairing for a friend's friend, and had to call them when they got home to remind them to find it and take it out to return it. They didn't even notice it plugged in until I told them to look for it. The same way that I didn't even notice I had left it plugged in to begin with. |
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USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks
Somewhere on teh intarwebs Daddy wrote:
ps56k wrote: I have a small USB flash/thumb drive on my keychain that I use for a variety of uses... just in case type things. Anyway - I have repeatedly had problems with using any of my USB flash drives with a variety of photo printing kiosks at the local stores.... the Kodak one, along with the other brand-x types. It's not just my single keychain flash, it's any of the different brands laying around the house - always have a problem reading them in the kiosk. In fact, I'm sure that at one point, one of my flash drives was trashed by a kiosk, and is no longer even recognized by our laptops. I usually try to print - have problems reading the drive, come home and re-copy the photo files to an extra SD Card and go back and use the SD Card, which works just fine. It's not even a large 2GB+ drive size issue, some are 2GB drives or 1GB, some are more. Anyone else had probs with using USB drives & the kiosks ???? If I owned such a kiosk I would do everything to prevent my kiosk from being infected by someone's USB drive. What's to infect Daddy? A *nix system that boots from a ROM chip? (Hint: ROM = Read Only Memory.) Some people take paranoia to the next level.... -- Shaun. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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On 4/7/2011 1:59 PM, ps56k wrote:
I have a small USB flash/thumb drive on my keychain that I use for a variety of uses... just in case type things. Anyway - I have repeatedly had problems with using any of my USB flash drives with a variety of photo printing kiosks at the local stores.... the Kodak one, along with the other brand-x types. It's not just my single keychain flash, it's any of the different brands laying around the house - always have a problem reading them in the kiosk. In fact, I'm sure that at one point, one of my flash drives was trashed by a kiosk, and is no longer even recognized by our laptops. I usually try to print - have problems reading the drive, come home and re-copy the photo files to an extra SD Card and go back and use the SD Card, which works just fine. It's not even a large 2GB+ drive size issue, some are 2GB drives or 1GB, some are more. Anyone else had probs with using USB drives& the kiosks ???? No. |
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On 4/10/2011 9:41 AM, Dave Cohen wrote:
On 4/7/2011 1:59 PM, ps56k wrote: I have a small USB flash/thumb drive on my keychain that I use for a variety of uses... just in case type things. Anyway - I have repeatedly had problems with using any of my USB flash drives with a variety of photo printing kiosks at the local stores.... the Kodak one, along with the other brand-x types. It's not just my single keychain flash, it's any of the different brands laying around the house - always have a problem reading them in the kiosk. In fact, I'm sure that at one point, one of my flash drives was trashed by a kiosk, and is no longer even recognized by our laptops. I usually try to print - have problems reading the drive, come home and re-copy the photo files to an extra SD Card and go back and use the SD Card, which works just fine. It's not even a large 2GB+ drive size issue, some are 2GB drives or 1GB, some are more. Anyone else had probs with using USB drives& the kiosks ???? No. I've used several different brands (sizes ranging from 256 Mb--really really old--up to 8 Gb) in the kiosks at CostCo and Wolf Camera (part of Ritz Camera) with no problems. The USBs have survived and as far as I know, so have the kiosks. If there was any damage to the kiosks it probably been brought to my attention. Allen |
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USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:59:06 -0500, "ps56k"
wrote: I have a small USB flash/thumb drive on my keychain that I use for a variety of uses... just in case type things. Anyway - I have repeatedly had problems with using any of my USB flash drives with a variety of photo printing kiosks at the local stores.... the Kodak one, along with the other brand-x types. It's not just my single keychain flash, it's any of the different brands laying around the house - always have a problem reading them in the kiosk. In fact, I'm sure that at one point, one of my flash drives was trashed by a kiosk, and is no longer even recognized by our laptops. I usually try to print - have problems reading the drive, come home and re-copy the photo files to an extra SD Card and go back and use the SD Card, which works just fine. It's not even a large 2GB+ drive size issue, some are 2GB drives or 1GB, some are more. Anyone else had probs with using USB drives & the kiosks ???? Have you talked to the people at the kiosk? My credit/debit card wouldn't work as a credit card at one chain of gas stations and when I asked inside, the manager said that happened with Bank of America, and Maryland Federal Credit Union.. |
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