Copy to Flash Drive???

[Todd3835]

Not sure if this is the right area, and I'm sorry if it's not. I know there are plugins that allow you to burn to a dvd, but I'm wondering if there's any way within sagetv to copy (although moving *would* work) a file to a flash drive. I record shows, and then want to bring them with me to my g/f's house to watch on the laptop, but dragging files through the network is a real pain. So I grabbed a flash drive (8gig for 20 bucks at walmart, you just can't go wrong!) but much to my dismay, I couldn't do it within sage! Anyone know of any other way?

-Todd

[GKusnick]

Medai Center > Browse Media Files > Browse Recording Paths. Then highlight a file, hit Select, choose "Copy to local file system", and specify your USB drive.

Originally Posted by Todd3835

(8gig for 20 bucks at walmart, you just can't go wrong!)

I'm guessing the ones you get for $20 at Walmart aren't the speediest. If you're going to be doing this a lot, it's probably worth spending a bit extra for faster write times.

[wayner]

I copy files all the time from my Sage recording directory to my laptop over my LAN using Windows Explorer. Even copying a full 8 Gigs shouldn't take too long, particularly if you have a Gigabit network. Or you could copy it from your SagePC to your USB drive using Windows Explorer.

I don't know that there really is that much of a difference in speed between the cheap and more expensive one is enough to make that much of a difference.

Why not use Windows Explorer rather than Sage? Just make sure to copy rather than move.