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[kubuntu] trouble with thumb drives

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I've tried transferring files to thumb drives on my Kubuntu several times now. Each time and with each thumb drive transfers will start with a fast write speed, then immediately slow down and stop completely, then start again with a fast write speed, only to slow down immediately again. Does anyone understand why this might be happening? It didn't always used to do this. i also just received a bunch of random errors: The crashed program seems to use third-party or local libraries: /tmp/QtJambi_sushi_amd64_4.5.2_01_gcc-20090628-2055/plugins/codecs/libqcncodecs.so /tmp/QtJambi_sushi_amd64 (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 11/06/2012 – Made popular on 11/06/2012

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