I tried to reproduce this using Xubuntu Hardy Heron, 8.04.1. After inserting the floppy disk in the drive, if you do NOT double-click the icon on the desktop, the floppy disk does not mount and you cannot save to it. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar- volman/+bug/199005
Double-clicking the icon on the desktop caused the floppy to be mounted. I could then save using AbiWord and using drag and drop from the desktop. Documents used were created in AbiWord and saved to my hard drive. I was able to do this using files saved as .abi (Abiword documents) and .doc (Microsoft Word) files. Since the floppy disk does not automount, it is necessary to mount the drive by double-clicking on it before you can save to it. NOTE: If you right-click on the floppy drive icon, left-click "eject volume", you must logout and login to use the floppy drive again. You also get an error: Unable to eject the volume, which is filed as a separate bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar-volman/+bug/199005 $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1 Release: 8.04 $ apt-cache policy abiword abiword: Installed: 2.4.6-3ubuntu3 Candidate: 2.4.6-3ubuntu3 Version table: *** 2.4.6-3ubuntu3 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Changed in: exo (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Status: New => Fix Released -- Cannot copy Abi file to floppy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242488 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
