I want to thank everyone who responded. I found the problem. Evidently, when I created the thumb-drive I overlooked the setting for file persistence. I know better than that but when I recreated the drive everything worked as expected, so that must have been the trouble all along.

Anyway, I sure appreciate this group and the different things I read about here.

Thanks,
David

On Jul 29, 2013 6:46 PM, "David Evans" <kd7uch@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, all;

Recently I have been using a bootable CD of CHIRP to take with me to radio club (Voice of Idaho) activities to help newbies program their radios. Works great, but I thought that a thumb drive would be handier since I could store some data files on it. Now, I have a fair familiarity with Linux but this stumps me. I created the boot-able thumb-drive and copied the CHIRP data files to the documents folder on it. They went on with no error messages and opened in CHIRP. Everything seemed fine until I rebooted the system and found that those data files were gone.

So, I am wondering why they were gone and what can I do to fix this.

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Thanks,
David
kd7uch@arrl.net