(on Thursday, 12-05-2019, George said...)
> From my experience, the drive has already lost or corrupted your data.
> You may be able to recover some of the files, but attempts to "repair"
> the filesystem risk destroying more data. You can try making a "clone"
> of the USB drive using dd, etc. onto a new drive and use repair tools
> on the copy.

Thank-you, George.
I tried finding a USB3 flash stick at the local walmart.  (My workstation has USB3 ports as well as USB2 ports.  The incremental back-ups are taking a lot of time using the USB2 sticks/ports.)  They had USB2 sticks only.  Once I've bought USB3 sticks in the right size range, I'll give that a try.

I get the impression from the silence on my first question (better testing of the stick) that there is nothing.  So I'm tagging this thread "CLOSED".

Bill.
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