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    From PaulRS@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 7 03:17:04 2020
    I have a Thumb-Drive to which I can no longer save any files as it
    complains that the "Extended Attributes file is corrupt." Is there
    any way to either work around this or fix the EA file?

    Paul

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  • From Mat Nieuwenhoven@21:1/5 to PaulRS on Tue Jan 7 07:27:28 2020
    On 7 Jan 2020 03:17:04 GMT, PaulRS wrote:

    I have a Thumb-Drive to which I can no longer save any files as it :>complains that the "Extended Attributes file is corrupt." Is there
    any way to either work around this or fix the EA file?

    On the 2G or greater USB stick I use, anytime I copy a file from OS/2
    to it I also get a .EA file with the same name. These are visible in
    Linux. I always delete them, have not seen any negative effects. I use formatted-as-disk, with 1 partition.
    It could be that if the stick is FAT16 formatted, the .EAs are in a
    separate file, can't remember. If it is formatted as a large floppy,
    then I don't know.

    Suggestion: Make a backup of the data on the stick, test the backup to
    see if all files are there, on the backup delete all .EA files
    (preferable on non-OS/2), then see if the backup works for writing
    again.

    Mat

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  • From Dave Yeo@21:1/5 to PaulRS on Sat Feb 1 20:11:21 2020
    On 01/06/20 07:17 PM, PaulRS wrote:
    I have a Thumb-Drive to which I can no longer save any files as it
    complains that the "Extended Attributes file is corrupt." Is there
    any way to either work around this or fix the EA file?


    Re-format the thumb drive and make sure that /EAS is _not_ on the
    fat32.ifs line in config.sys. They're more often then not buggy.
    While there, you should probably turn off lazy writing by
    changing/adding the switch /L:off to the cachef32 line. Lazy writing
    seems to slow down thumb drives.
    Dave

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