The solution to my problems with usb-creator was to use a combination of the above:
1) Formatting the USB drive with Gparted made the drive usable by usb- creator (as sdb1) 2) Moving the image to my home directory made the file readable by usb- creator (I also had a folder with utf-8 characters) -- Fails repeatably with "DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.NotFound: The given volume was not found" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458334 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