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On 24/08/13 11:45, Simon Robert -Cottage wrote:
Thanks for the advice. I never ever go near Windows. I, my wife and my daughter are all set up with Linux. I will certainly continue to watch out for permission issues.I know that in theory it's ideologically nice to have your USB stick formatted to something linuxie, but I've had so many problems using ext4 etc with my USB stuff and file permissions that I just use FAT32. Also for me USB sticks, external harddrives etc., are all about portability and ext4 ain't gonna give you that if you want to watch that movie, transfer that album, run that powerpoint presentation or print your document from some windows box. Life is too short to spend time faffing around with permissions on libre office docs, so my advice would be to swallow your geekly pride, grit your teeth and format the thing to FAT32. So if you're sure you're never going to go near windows just make sure the file permissions are set to let everything and everybody use it and anything you transfer to it also. S
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