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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

#125 — 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 ????


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#126

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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#127

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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#128

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:23:09 -0400, Daddy <daddy@invalid.net> 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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#129

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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#130

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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#131

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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#189

On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:59:06 -0500, "ps56k"
<pschuman_nospam_me@interserv.com> 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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