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Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks

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From ray <ray@zianet.com>
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Subject Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks
Date 7 Apr 2011 18:34:47 GMT
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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 "ps56k" <pschuman_nospam_me@interserv.com> - 2011-04-07 12:59 -0500
  Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks Daddy <daddy@invalid.net> - 2011-04-07 14:23 -0400
    Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2011-04-07 18:34 +0000
    Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks Better Info <binfo@address.info> - 2011-04-07 13:42 -0500
    Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-04-08 13:37 +1200
  Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks Dave Cohen <user@example.net> - 2011-04-10 10:41 -0400
    Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks Allen <allent@austin.rr.com> - 2011-04-10 10:03 -0500
  Re: USB flash drives & photo printing kiosks mm <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com> - 2011-05-08 21:42 -0400

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