Extracting from a .zip archive onto a Flash drive hangs

[wlamia]

With a .zip folder open on the left panel, and a Flash drive on the right panel, copying a file from left to right hangs TC 7.5 beta. I have to abort the process to recover. I even tried reformatting the flash drive first, and it still hangs.

[ghisler(Author)]

Not confirmed here, sorry.

How long did you wait? How big is the zip? Btw, writing with WriteFile to a flash drive is VERY slow on Windows XP and later, because there is no write cache. It's strongly recommended to unpack to a local direcrory and then copy the files to the flash drive.

[wlamia]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I tried the same operation with the same hardware on TC 7.04a and it works fine. The only difference was TC 7.50. Multiple tries produced the same results.

I suppose it is possible that there is a very strange hardware interaction at play. The flash drive is labeled "Integral 1GB" but I have no way of knowing who really made it. It's probably a cheap-o generic.

[DrShark]

I tried the same operation with the same hardware on TC 7.04a and it works fine. The only difference was TC 7.50. Multiple tries produced the same results.

What OS are you using?
Did you try to change settings on Operation->Copy/Delete?

I suppose it is possible that there is a very strange hardware interaction at play. The flash drive is labeled "Integral 1GB" but I have no way of knowing who really made it. It's probably a cheap-o generic.

Maybe tools like Unknown device identifier and (if you have usb flash drive) USB ID Check will help to get more info.

[wlamia]

Very strange - it seems to be working OK now.

FYI, OS is WinXP Home SP3, with all current updates applied.

Could be an odd race condition that caused the problem. I've been experiencing some networking problems, too.

[ghisler(Author)]

Maybe it was caused by a virus scanner or so. I will move this message to "will not be changed". Please let us know if it happens again.