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)
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)