I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I copied 400GB of assorted files in an RDP session today and Windows had to think for a minute or two, then copy them ever so slowly, then stop at 99% done, then crash Explorer and disable the start menu and taskbar and CTRL-ALT-DEL and all ways of getting to the Task Manager, and then freeze the whole machine so that I had to travel to the physical machine and hold down the power button, since when it has been unusably slow because Windows now wants to rebuild the RAID array, which takes days. This was a pretty average Windows session.

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Try Robocopy. It's built-in and allows using multiple threads.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That thinking is so very annoying. This is all time that could be used to copy files.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The best bit is that if you lose patience and cancel, the "Cancelling..." takes even longer than finishing the job would have done. I really have no idea what's going on. Journalling file systems in Linux don't have to do this.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

lol still? Since at least like Win 7 or XP