Thunderbird bug, File Search Pgm?, WD install error AND low-cost USB C & A Flash Drive
To lighten the TLDR, 4 TOC matters: 1) Thunderbird bug 2) Robust File Search Pgm Anyone? 3) External WD drive install error 4) $18 128G USB Flash Drive fits both C and A ports. 1) Thunderbird bug A client has two email addresses. The second one is designated as the default but for new messages TB still employs the first address listed which happens to be gmail. With my dyslexia etc. trying to pass on to Mozilla invariably becomes a never ending rabbit hole. Would someone do it for me, or help hold my hands with but a link or two to get it done? :) 2) A Robust File Search Pgm anyone? MsDos has two file search functions. The very inferior Find, but even the Findstr is not robust enough and fails because too many long lines and files it can't open before mssg memory exhausted. This likely RAM? but its a 16GB Ram cptr as detailed in next item. Can anyone recommend a much more robust search pgm for Windows but likely using MsDos? 3) External WD drive install error After my Seagate back-up drive failed prematurely bought two 4TB WD external drives. Did a full back up of an older Toshiba Window 7 machine no problem. Then used a newer Dell 16GB RAM with Windows 10 Pro to copy to the second drive. However for my second BU when I rotated to this drive the system gave the follow three mssgs: USB Mass Storage Device Ready to use WD Mypassport 2626 USB Device Ready to use WD SES Device USB Device No Driver found Windows volunteered to find and replace the third line with the following two WD SES Device USB Device Searching for Windows Update Unidentified Device No Driver found As it functions, is this an issue? Or should I have it exchanged or attempt another fix you can recommend? 4) Fyi BestBuy has tiny approx 1 inch long $18 128G USB Flash Drive engineered to fit either a USB C or USB A port. The "box" says its a Kingston DataTraveler micrDuo 3C 128GB 200MB/s [R] with a swivel so it fits both C and A ports. FWIW "Box" even says it has a 5 yr warranty. :) _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca
On 2024-11-29 eh@eduardhiebert.com wrote:
2) A Robust File Search Pgm anyone? MsDos has two file search functions. The very inferior Find, but even the Findstr is not robust enough and fails because too many long lines and files it can't open before mssg memory exhausted. This likely RAM? but its a 16GB Ram cptr as detailed in next item.
I would install cygwin (pretty universal) or that linux-on-windows thing if they still have it. Then use grep. Friends don't let friends use msdos/powershell.
WD SES Device USB Device No Driver found
I hate external drives that don't use known standards and require drivers! Evil. I have some old Toshiba things here that won't work on anything but XP! Even the drives inside have something weird done to them that makes them unusable even as bard IDE or SATA drives. Evil. However, if you're using a newer OS, and a newer drive, and we're talking Windows, it should work! What does the WD box say it requires for an OS? You're saying you got it to work on 7 but not 10? That's odd unless it's an older drive. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca
SES is Storage Enclosure Service, normally only found on server-grade hot-swap bays. Not sure what WD is using it for on an external HDD, nor why the enclosed HDD isn't being detected. I wonder if they've resurrected one of those CD-USB ideas, I think the last one was called "U3", where you sent the drive a command and it flipped from one partition to the other, or something like that. Hope not... in any case, I'd say download and install the WD drivers that came with the drive. Keep in mind that the HDD could simply be dead - Occam's Razor may apply. WSL is 100% mainstream Windows component now, has been for a while. If you want to share a filesystem easily (with a speed hit) make sure it's set to use version 1; version 2 runs inside a full-blown VM so you have to mount the host as a remote filesystem but is otherwise faster. There's also PowerShell's Select-String, which is the PS equivalent of grep, roughly. I found a reasonably decent explanation here: https://www.alkanesolutions.co.uk/2023/09/05/powershell-grep-and-findstr-equ... Or the quick'n'dirty example "Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.log | select-string ERROR" which I think is equivalent to "grep -r --include=*.log ERROR". If you want to emulate grep-r directly, the short form: "gci -r | select-string ABCDEF" should suffice. -Adam -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> Sent: December 1, 2024 00:03 To: roundtable@muug.ca Subject: [RndTbl] Re: Thunderbird bug, File Search Pgm?, WD install error AND low-cost USB C & A Flash Drive On 2024-11-29 eh@eduardhiebert.com wrote:
2) A Robust File Search Pgm anyone? MsDos has two file search functions. The very inferior Find, but even the Findstr is not robust enough and fails because too many long lines and files it can't open before mssg memory exhausted. This likely RAM? but its a 16GB Ram cptr as detailed in next item.
I would install cygwin (pretty universal) or that linux-on-windows thing if they still have it. Then use grep. Friends don't let friends use msdos/powershell.
WD SES Device USB Device No Driver found
I hate external drives that don't use known standards and require drivers! Evil. I have some old Toshiba things here that won't work on anything but XP! Even the drives inside have something weird done to them that makes them unusable even as bard IDE or SATA drives. Evil. However, if you're using a newer OS, and a newer drive, and we're talking Windows, it should work! What does the WD box say it requires for an OS? You're saying you got it to work on 7 but not 10? That's odd unless it's an older drive. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca
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