Thank you! I'm sixty and I raised and home schooled a disabled and difficult son all by myself from before birth, as his father died in a car accident only 3 months into the pregnancy. I have learned not to take life's little, and even not so little, frustrations personally or too seriously. He came out alright, in spite of 21 years of daily trauma, and is now on scholarships at University and getting straight A's and A+'s. So one must never give up, I have learned. He's thriving and happy, so it was all worth it. However, there was not the media icon "3BF8-0A57" on the desktop, and when I tried to find it, clicking on a "button" that said "media" it gave me an error thingie, which I took a screen shot of and am attaching, if that helps. I searched everything I could think of, but couldn't find anything with an "eject" or "unmount" option, related to the media. So what I'll do is wait until I shut the computer off, and then remove it. Thank you for confirming that suspicion of mine, and also giving me an alternative. I'll watch more closely next time I insert it, and see if maybe I did something I wasn't aware of that deleted what I'm looking for. Now that I remember, there seemed to be two windows, by the time I'd checked the computer screen after fiddling with the thumb drive and finally getting it mounted properly (I assume). I didn't realize there were two at first, because I could only see the one. The other one, when I saw it, said something about an error, I think. I'll repeat the whole process, knowing better what's happening next time, and go through it all more slowly. I can't find the icon now, but perhaps next time I will be able to. I may have deleted it unknowingly. Or may have missed some other pertinent information that will help you solve this mystery. Thank you for explaining WHY not to try to remove it prematurely. It's really a lot more fun to use a computer when you understand how and why it does things and why you need to do things a certain way yourself. One of my biggest problems is not having a big enough vocabulary yet. Too many terms are still a mystery to me. Is there such a thing as a dictionary for defining computer terminology? Thank you for all your help, and I'll be waiting eagerly to see if something turns up tomorrow in your search for a solution to the mystery of the unresponsive relationship between my CD's, the computer, and the Ubuntu program or whatever is ignoring them. Till then, your grateful student, Doris > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:13:34 +0000 > From: