Hi,
I’ve got a bit of a complex issue and I’m not terrible computer literate so I’m hoping for some simple help
Essentially, I like cloning a large folder of files from my PC to my Framework laptop to continue working while I’m away. The fastest way for me to do this seems to be removing the expansion card from my laptop, plugging it into my PC via a USB adapter, and running a file syncing program. This works on the PC - I can see the files in the expansion card folder while on my PC. However, when I plug it back into my laptop and boot up, oftentimes the new folders are locked/inaccessible, and when I run a command to give myself permission to view it I only see a tiny fraction of the files I confirmed were copied over on my PC - in this case a folder that should have contained 2600 files only has 41, and most of those are corrupted.
Does anyone know what I can do to make this work better? I’m not sure messing around with the file permissions is going to help if the card only thinks a few dozen files were copied when I copied thousands. Is there a way I can just tell the expansion card itself to stop worrying about permissions and all, permanently? I do this once a month.
The only/obvious thing I can think of is, are you “safely removing” the USB-connected disk from the PC first? There should be a control in Windows via something like right-clicking the USB disk icon or similar.
Doing so makes sure that all file content “written” to the removable USB disk is safely written there. To speed most common use cases up, sometimes the OS (Windows or otherwise) will report disk writes as completed while in truth they’re still in flight (still in memory waiting to get to the disk).
Sorry I can’t be more specific, I haven’t daily used Windows for a while now.
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Yeah, I generally try to do that. The other day it was saying it was in use, which I took to mean it was still writing. Last night there was a power outage right as I was going to sign off, but I had only used the drive four hours earlier, so it should have been done by then.
In looking more into it, I’ve seen a suggestion that I should reformat the drive as exFAT if I want it to be more reliable between devices than NFTS, does that sound right?
I really don’t know Windows these days. TBH I don’t think any particular filesystem should matter that much as long as the drive is safely unmounted (removed/ejected in Windows terms).
It’s not inconceivable that the power outage could have somehow damaged the drive itself, so a reformat might be a good way to start with a cleaner slate and to some extent “test” the drive.
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