I cant import from flash drive

[ihatesbillgates]

I figured it would be like dumping my camera but Im not having any luck.
When I put the stick in the usb a brasero window opens.It doesnt show me my device and I cant find it anywhere on the computer
Im trying to import some pictures when I go to shotwell the stick doesnt show up.
Can any one walk me through this?

[benmc]

HI
just a few questions.

Which edition of Mageia [ 1/2/3, 32 or 64 ]
desktop enviroment is gnome, correct?

when you plug in this particular device, does the usb symbol show up in your notification area?
does your file manager[ nautilus ] show the usb stick and importantly have you mounted the device?

kind regards

Benmc

[ihatesbillgates]

it doesnt do any thing at all and I cannot locate the device anywhere.
I know the flash drive is good and I know the usb port is working .

[doktor5000]

Then please do the following: open a terminal, and as root run:

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tailf /var/log/messages

then wait a few seconds, and plugin the flashdrive, wait again ten secons or so, until no new output appears,
and post everything here

[ihatesbillgates]

sounds like good advise but I cant do that either
Im starting to think I messed somthing up on my install.
I mean I can do almost nothing with this os.
I used a live cd for install in my dvd drive now my drive doesnt work and I cant find any option to mount it.
I cannot creat folders in shotwell unless I do it while I am downloading my camera.
I cant delete folders in shotwell period.
I cant put folders on my desk top
And the list goes on and on
as I am typing this a window keeps popping up telling me the password I entered is incorrect.I havent entered a password
Im just typing text into a box why am I getting this ?

[Ken-Bergen]

You still haven't answered the question in the second post.

Which edition of Mageia [ 1/2/3, 32 or 64 ]

[ihatesbillgates]

oops sorry
I installed magia 2 32 bit gnome
no icon shows up
I cant find any option to mount any of the devices that are not working

[doktor5000]

When i asked for you to open a terminal and to provide some information, your answer was:

sounds like good advise but I cant do that either

Why can't you do that, what's the error message, and how did you try to open a terminal?
For what it's worth, you can always switch to another tty via Ctrl+Alt+F1 to F8, this is the same as a terminal.

[benmc]

Some more questions.

Is this usb flash drive the only one you cannot access with Mageia?

or

You cannot access any usb flash drives with Mageia?

K.regards.

[oj]

If you reinstall, do not "remove unused hardware support" when prompted. (related point: don't use urpmi --auto-orphans, either)

[JoesCat]

Just a quick note, but I've had to point-out to many Windows users that they need to "safely-eject" their flash drive before they unplug it.

Many users tend to simply unplug a USB stick, and the problem with this is that some files aren't flushed and closed correctly as in similar manner to turning-off your computer. This eventually leads to a corrupted file system on the USB stick, which the same users think is a bad USB stick (as in defective, and not as, corrupted/dirty file system). with Linux, when it attempts to open one of these USB sticks, it sees that the USB stick was not "ejected" correctly, and will likely not accept the USB.

To cure this, you need to take the USB back to the very same computer that you abruptly removed the USB stick from, plug it back in, then tell it to safely eject it - this should finish-up writing any unfinished files, and close-up any unfinished things that needed closing.

If you get in the habit of "ejecting" USB sticks and SD cards, you'll find that they live a lot longer (because you aren't corrupting the internal file system by yanking the USB stick or SD card out before it's done writing.