Need Thumb Drive Help

[R. Richard]

I use Windows 10 and the Windows Music Player.
If I transfer a music file from my hard drive to a folder in a thumb drive, it works fine and the music file plays.
If I bulk transfer music files from my hard drive to a folder in a thumb drive, it seems to work and a just transferred music file plays, then the music files disappear.
HELP!
(I already know that the guys maintaining Windows 10 and the Windows Music Player are fascist pigs.)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Sorry I don't know shit about Windows 10 and I hope I never do.

 

[jsmiam]

I use Windows 10 and the Windows Music Player.
If I transfer a music file from my hard drive to a folder in a thumb drive, it works fine and the music file plays.
If I bulk transfer music files from my hard drive to a folder in a thumb drive, it seems to work and a just transferred music file plays, then the music files disappear.
HELP!
(I already know that the guys maintaining Windows 10 and the Windows Music Player are fascist pigs.)

If by just transferred, you mean music plays until you remove the thumb drive, it may be copying shortcuts to the music files, not the music files themselves. So as long as the thumb drive is plugged in, the shortcut points to the file on the hard drive, and finds them. Check settings in whatever you're using for bulk transfer. And you are correct, it could also be digital rights management.

Two ideas, worth one cent each... ;-)

 

[KayceeCharles]

If I bulk transfer music files from my hard drive to a folder in a thumb drive...

What do you mean by "bulk transfer"? Copy an entire subdirectory at a time?

What you describe seem to suggest a dead or badly formated / faked USB drive.

A USB drive faked to report larger size than it is (for example, 4 GB faked to say 32 GB) can do that.

So can a damaged USB drive.

So... try a DIFFERENT USB drive.

 

[Jay321]

as cheap as flash drives are now, go get another one. Sounds like the drive is going bad. Id link you to a few good/cheap ones, but I think that is against the forum rules.

 

[R. Richard]

I did try a later thumb drive and it worked!
You can get a 512 GIGA byte thumb drive on an Internet auction site, for under $10!

 

[NoJo]

Hottest thread on the boards right now

 

[Jay321]

I did try a later thumb drive and it worked!
You can get a 512 GIGA byte thumb drive on an Internet auction site, for under $10!

Glad it worked out for you.

 

[Handley_Page]

Hottest thread on the boards right now

Merely over-heating in the chips.

 

[oggbashan]

Merely over-heating in the chips.

Use oven chips next time, not a deep fat fryer.