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MyNameIsMrBurns · 02-20-2015, 02:59 AM

Clever solution, Dexmaster, and I tried it... unfortunately, it doesn't work, for a frustrating reason: apparently USB mass storage doesn't support resumable file transfers.

I tried using both TeraCopy and TotalCommander. The former got me the error "The volume has been externally altered" (even if I pause before the disconnect, reconnect, then try to resume) and TotalCommander simply says "Remove the write protection and retry" -- if I reconnect the device and retry, it starts over from 0% again.

I've also tried transferring the update across as 10 separate tar files and then untarring them during one mount session, but that doesn't work either, because it takes over a minute to untar. I think my only hope, short of figuring out why the hell it unmounts itself, is to find a way to split files and then rejoin them into one without writing a new 180 MB file, but I don't know if that's possible.

02-20-2015, 02:59 AM	#6
MyNameIsMrBurns Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Nook Simple Touch Reader	Clever solution, Dexmaster, and I tried it... unfortunately, it doesn't work, for a frustrating reason: apparently USB mass storage doesn't support resumable file transfers. I tried using both TeraCopy and TotalCommander. The former got me the error "The volume has been externally altered" (even if I pause before the disconnect, reconnect, then try to resume) and TotalCommander simply says "Remove the write protection and retry" -- if I reconnect the device and retry, it starts over from 0% again. I've also tried transferring the update across as 10 separate tar files and then untarring them during one mount session, but that doesn't work either, because it takes over a minute to untar. I think my only hope, short of figuring out why the hell it unmounts itself, is to find a way to split files and then rejoin them into one without writing a new 180 MB file, but I don't know if that's possible.