Maurice wrote:
Using Linux (Mageia-5) I copied some .MTS video files to a Christmas
visitor's USB flash drive to take home to her Windows 7 to play back.
Checked that they played back OK under Mageia (VLC).

But when I tried it on my Windows 7, the system denied the existence of
the whole folder on the flassh drive (though no such problem with a
folder
of.jpg files on same flash drive.)

[Then tried with a different folder name, but this time it said the
folder was empty...]

Anyone know of a way to persuade Windows 7 to play ball here, please?

[Is converting all .MTS to .MOV the only way?]


Do you use "Safely Remove" or in Linux, do
dismounts before pulling USB sticks ? Maybe the
file system took minor damage.

When a file has an unknown extension or even no
extension, that should not affect visibility.

As for permissions, generally Linux does not
apply an "unbreakable" permission to things
it adds. Linux is not supposed to have support
for SIDs on NTFS. The day Linux gets full support
for every file system feature, is the day it'll
become useless for maintenance.

And I've not run into Linux changing some attribute
bits either (like a Hidden attribute).

Paul