U3 drive problem

[Richard Gaskin]

Walton Sumner wrote:
> The U3 developers here may find this interesting. I have a 1 GB U3
> "GeekSquad" flash drive that worked this morning to transfer a file from a
> PC to a Mac, it was gracefully removed from the Mac, and now neither PC nor
> Mac recognizes the drive as valid, and both computers offer to reformat the
> drive for me. My call to "1-800-Geeksqua(d)", printed on the side of my
> flash drive, cannot be completed.
> 
> U3 web site describes trouble shooting for Launchpads not responding.
> 
> http://www.u3.com/support/faq.aspx#U3%20Launchpad1
> 
> Tried the directions, no improvement.

U3 is a lot of work for the small convenience of auto-launching a 
launcher that the user must then use to launch your app, and only on one 
platform.

One of the cool things about Rev is that it's standalones are inherently 
self-contained anyway, so they don't necessarily require the sort of 
installation process common with more DLL-dependent apps like VB.

So if the goal is to deploy to portable flash drives, there's no need to 
limit yourself to the relatively small subset of those drives compliant 
with the U3 specs.  You can deploy easily to any flash drive for any OS 
without it.

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