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[Clemano]

When using Quickbooks Pro I always do a backup of the company file. Today
when I attempted to do this I got the following windows warning message:
"The currently logged in windows user does not have permission to write or
delete files from this location." The backup I had attempted was not saved on
my flash drive. I checked the user account from the control panel and it
showed my user as administrator. Anyone know how I might fix this?

 

[Malke]

When using Quickbooks Pro I always do a backup of the company file. Today
when I attempted to do this I got the following windows warning message:
"The currently logged in windows user does not have permission to write or
delete files from this location." The backup I had attempted was not saved
on my flash drive. I checked the user account from the control panel and
it showed my user as administrator. Anyone know how I might fix this?

Perhaps your flash drive is full or failing. Try saving the QuickBooks file
to your hard drive. If it saves correctly, you know the issue is with the
flash drive. Flash drives don't last forever and are not good permanent
backup media. They are great for transferring files from computer to
computer and for quick storage, though.

Malke

 

[Gerry]

Malke

Are you a fan of Lance Corporal Jones?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance-Corporal_Jack_Jones

http://home.btconnect.com/howejam/dadsarmy/bios/characters/da_jones.htm

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Gerry
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Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Bill in Co.]

Perhaps your flash drive is full or failing. Try saving the QuickBooks
file
to your hard drive. If it saves correctly, you know the issue is with the
flash drive. Flash drives don't last forever and are not good permanent
backup media.

I thought the lifetime of a flash drive WAS quite long, in fact, longer than
a hard drive. Don't hard drives typically have a lifetime of only a few
years?

 

[Malke]

No, I'm just an intolerant Ass.

You fool no one, troll. You're pitiful.

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Malke

 

[Malke]

Malke

Are you a fan of Lance Corporal Jones?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance-Corporal_Jack_Jones

http://home.btconnect.com/howejam/dadsarmy/bios/characters/da_jones.htm

It's the first I've ever heard of him, Gerry. But I do like his motto. ;-)

Best regards as always,

Malke

 

[Malke]

Bill in Co. wrote:

I thought the lifetime of a flash drive WAS quite long, in fact, longer
than
a hard drive. Don't hard drives typically have a lifetime of only a few
years?

Hard drives usually last 3-5 years, although we all have drives that are
much older and still going strong.

It's my understanding that USB thumb drives have a finite number of writes.
I don't have any statistics on that and truthfully I don't feel like
spending the time researching it just now.

I *do* know for certain that USB thumb drives can run out of room and they
are fragile. You can break them and lose them. Also all the techs I know,
including myself, have had the experience of sticking a USB thumb drive in
a client's failing machine and having a power surge on the USB port fry the
drive. I have "sacrificial" thumb drives for working on clients' machines
now. It's for those reasons that I say that USB thumb drives, while
marvelous, aren't a good permanent backup solution.

I don't know for certain that the thumb drive is the OP's issue but I
thought that a good first troubleshooting step would be to determine if the
problem comes from hardware or from QuickBooks.

Malke

 

[Bill in Co.]

Bill in Co. wrote:



Hard drives usually last 3-5 years, although we all have drives that are
much older and still going strong.

It's my understanding that USB thumb drives have a finite number of
writes.
I don't have any statistics on that and truthfully I don't feel like
spending the time researching it just now.

I believe it was something like 100,000 or more write cycles (to the same
cells) - or even more. But that most of these flash drives distribute or
randomize the cells they write data to, (so that doesn't mean you can only
write to the flash disk 100,000 times).

I *do* know for certain that USB thumb drives can run out of room and they
are fragile. You can break them and lose them. Also all the techs I know,
including myself, have had the experience of sticking a USB thumb drive in
a client's failing machine and having a power surge on the USB port fry
the
drive.

OK, and that all makes sense. Although fortunately I've never had the
surge problem, but I'm not sharing my flash drive, either.

 

[mikeyhsd]

the life time of a hard drive is expressed as MTBF.

translates to 100k + accesses before failure.
not hours, days, weeks, months, or years.

(e-mail address removed)

Perhaps your flash drive is full or failing. Try saving the QuickBooks
file
to your hard drive. If it saves correctly, you know the issue is with the
flash drive. Flash drives don't last forever and are not good permanent
backup media.

I thought the lifetime of a flash drive WAS quite long, in fact, longer than
a hard drive. Don't hard drives typically have a lifetime of only a few
years?