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    Copying file to USB hangs and does not copy correctly

    I have had this problem for awhile. I assumed it was kernel related but i have upgraded to 3.19.0-30 and it is still there.

    When I copy video files from my laptop to a USB drive, the copying will pause or stop several times while copying and report 0B/s being transferred. Then it will start again at 100+ B/s and quickly slow down to 0 B/s. I could deal with the inconvenience except that when I transfer the file to another computer to watch the video, the video is not correctly and fully copied over (it will hang at certain points or skip parts). I have tried it with multiple USBs and it is the same with each. If I upload the file to dropbox or another cloud service and download it onto the other computer, the file is fine. I can also play it on my laptop (the computer to which it was downloaded originally) and the file plays correctly.

    The problem only seems to occur when I copy to the USB. I am not sure if I can edit a setting or check something to make the copying to USB more consistent.

    #2
    First, how big are the video files being copied, and second, what is the USB drive formatted to?
    Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007
    "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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      #3
      between 250mb and 1.5 gb. USB file formats have been FAT32, though I tried once by formatting one of the drives to NTFS but it was the same problem.

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