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Post by notneeson on Jul 8, 2023 14:09:08 GMT -6
Man, I sent this guy back down to LA (we are Bay Area) with a thumb drive full of his sessions.
Before he left, I successfully mounted and transferred to/from the drive on two different Mac systems.
Now that he's home, he's saying the drive won't mount on Windows or Mac. He did say they plugged it into the USB port on a car and it got really hot.
Any theories, just for fun? I don't want to ask him to try anything else unless it is super easy, because this guy is clearly not too techy.
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Post by explorer on Jul 8, 2023 14:36:02 GMT -6
In this sort of case I’d probably just send him a new copy if you can.
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Post by notneeson on Jul 8, 2023 15:57:11 GMT -6
In this sort of case I’d probably just send him a new copy if you can. Yes, working on a cloud based transfer given the distance. I'm just really kicking it around in my head because a brand new thumb drive failure two days after purchase seems so unlikely. |
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Post by kcatthedog on Jul 8, 2023 16:27:08 GMT -6
Send him the wav files on wetransfer, just need his email.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2023 17:07:18 GMT -6
He fried the thing. A USB port with bad power can fry almost any device that’s plugged in. Just use a file sharing thing like drop box or we transfer. Make sure you get paid afterwards. He fried his only copy of his own sessions.
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Post by notneeson on Jul 8, 2023 17:52:29 GMT -6
In this case I just didn’t feel like logging into my account on the studio computer (at someone else’s joint) because it likely would have required a pw reset and I didn’t want to deal. I guess I could have logged into Chrome and used the pw manager but I prefer to only do that on my own machines.
Studio owner is going to eventually get a file sharing account just for the control room and that will be that.
And yes, it’s uploading to Dropbox at my house right now.
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Post by drumsound on Jul 11, 2023 11:45:34 GMT -6
Feels like the car fried the thumb drive.
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Post by EmRR on Jul 11, 2023 13:18:31 GMT -6
It's been awhile, but there was a whole run of Lexar drives with something like a driver flaw, couldn't be seen by some computers.
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Post by ericn on Jul 11, 2023 13:33:53 GMT -6
It's been awhile, but there was a whole run of Lexar drives with something like a driver flaw, couldn't be seen by some computers. There are also a ton of just crappy cheap USB sticks, a while ago had a similar situation with a cheap generic stick smoking, poor build was just melting from the inside. |
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Post by notneeson on Jul 11, 2023 14:39:35 GMT -6
It's been awhile, but there was a whole run of Lexar drives with something like a driver flaw, couldn't be seen by some computers. It might have been a Lexar, actually. You would hope they’d pull the defective ones from stores but I can see them not doing that. |
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Post by Ward on Jul 12, 2023 10:35:00 GMT -6
www.WEtransfer or sendgb.com are essential to my peers, clients, partners and myself.
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Post by ericn on Jul 12, 2023 11:04:07 GMT -6
It's been awhile, but there was a whole run of Lexar drives with something like a driver flaw, couldn't be seen by some computers. It might have been a Lexar, actually. You would hope they’d pull the defective ones from stores but I can see them not doing that. They try to but often what happens is a large retailer or distributor pulls them, they end up in the back of the warehouse and someone finds them. They either grab them, or because they are not well marked they get sold through a secondary channel. |
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Post by notneeson on Jul 12, 2023 11:55:28 GMT -6
It might have been a Lexar, actually. You would hope they’d pull the defective ones from stores but I can see them not doing that. They try to but often what happens is a large retailer or distributor pulls them, they end up in the back of the warehouse and someone finds them. They either grab them, or because they are not well marked they get sold through a secondary channel. I had a hunch you might have some insight. Makes sense. |
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Post by ericn on Jul 12, 2023 12:42:26 GMT -6
They try to but often what happens is a large retailer or distributor pulls them, they end up in the back of the warehouse and someone finds them. They either grab them, or because they are not well marked they get sold through a secondary channel. I had a hunch you might have some insight. Makes sense. Unfortunately this is what happens in big retail, the really scary part is the guys in charge often don’t realize this happens, this is also why you avoid that guy on eBay selling $1 flash drives. Now where it really get tragic/ Funny is when say Microcenter sells a bunch of these to a secondary reseller, then without doing any digging buys them from the same guys under a different DBA! |
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