[KLUG Members] disappearing from FAT partition

[Eric Beversluis]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 18:12 -0400, Dan Sikorski wrote: 
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
(Reprinting the first paragraph from my original post:)
I've got two documents that I've been working on in OO.o in Linux and
then want to look at from Windows. So I do as 'save as' and save them to
my FAT 32 partition. The partition/folder has permissions 777 and each
document has 777 when I look at its permissions. I then go to Windows,
open the partition, and the documents are not there! So I go back to
Linux and, lo-and-behold, they've disappeared from the partition
completely--even tho they were there earlier: I saw them in the file
manager and checked their permissions!

> > This has happened twice. The first time I thought maybe the 'save as'
> > hadn't worked, so I tried again (having to redo some editing work, since
> > the finished documents had disappeared). This time I carefully looked at
> > the folder (/mnt/fat32HDD) and saw them there. (OO.o's "Open recent
> > document" shows them with the right path, but when I click on it, I get
> > told that the document doesn't exist.)
> > 
> > Does anyone know wtf is going on? 
> 
> Is that fat filesystem being properly unmounted when you shut down 
> linux?  Try running sync before shutting down to make sure that the file 
> has actually been written to disk.
> 
> 	-Dan

I don't think this is it. When I shut down Linux and reboot as Linux,
the doc is still there and opens. But when I open Windows and look for
it, it does not appear. Sometimes it also seems gone when I go back to
Linux, but not always. (There are some pdf files on that partition that
I put there from Linux which Windows seems happy to see, although maybe
I put them there from the Windows side--don't remember.) 

(I wondered if maybe Linux was just creating a link when I copied the
file over to the FAT32 partition, but looking at that folder in the
terminal, it doesn't look like a link.)

Is there something with Windows that makes it not want to recognize
files that Linux has saved to a FAT32 partition?

EB
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