On 05/20/2010 09:00 PM, MHR informed us: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Steven Vishoot<sir_funzone at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> to me it sounds like the zip program is culprit since it might still holding onto the flash file system. did you try fuser -l on the flash drive and see what has a hold on it. just a thought. >> >> > I'd have to check next time on both, but unless the zip program uses a > daemon, which I've never heard of, I wouldn't think it's that. Didn't > try fuser (or lsof). Will next time. > > Thanks. > > mhr > Another thought: I have been known to cd to the directory on the flash drive containing the files to be copied, usually when I'm selectively copying a number of files. Advantage is that you can easily copy/paste the file name(s). Down side is that you've got to remember to cd out of the flash drive before it'll umount.