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On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:55 +0100, Neil Stone wrote: > what filesystem is on the usb stick ? not all fs's will allow a > directory not to have text prior to a "." Dear Neil Thank you. In this case it is an old mp3 player which I think is FAT12. I forget what we actually did use, but if it was a portable hard disk I cannot find it except in media as FREECOM HDD which will not work with the space (I suppose). I seem to remember he found it in a different way. So. I should jump to home and call it james/.evolution? (2)With sudo I got the same as before all "failed to preserve ownership for xxx: Operation not permitted" using sudo cp -a james/.evolution /media/disk (1)I tried doing this with the same line without sudo and this time I get cp: cannot create regular file '/media/disk/.evolution/<folder1 name>:_home_james_.evolution_mail_local#<folder2 name>.xml': invalid argument. At least these are the last few messages, where folder1 is e.g mail/views/current_view-m_box and folder2 is e.g. computer_dclug_artists (corresponding to my directory of folders for my mail). I am happy to keep trying. How would I find the FREECOM HDD as a file (I think that's what he said it was)? -- James Kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html