I am having the same problem. I also formatted as HFS+ I haven't had a chance to unplug the drive to try that. However, it only seems to happen with Drag and Drops. I don't seem to have that problem when I do an rsync in a Tcsh..

It also seems that if I copy the file to a different folder it copies over fine, but when I try to drag the file back into the destination folder it errors out. I ended up having to rename the destination folder, delete it, recreate it, then move the file over, and then I thought it worked, but when I went into the folder, the file was zero bytes again..

I tried copying another file over, it worked fine. The problem file in question is a .rar compressed file. Not sure if that makes a difference.

Hope that helps a bit.

yes we are tracking an issue with moves between folders on hfs partitions. however ejecting the drive and plugging it back in seems to fix everything. did you eject the drive from the web application's settings page before you unplugged the drive? if not, this is why it mounted in read-only mode.

I am having the exact same problem as SA3. I think I'll be sending an e-mail to tech support since I keep having all sorts of problems even though I've reformatted the drive a few times.

I can get things to work well for a little bit and then I start having problems copying files (permission errors) or moving folders around within the Pogoplug (files disappear, folder sizes go to 0 KB).

Latest is that is says I have to disable journaling to get the drive to mount r/w.

Confirmed reproducible problem - as soon as I move a file or folder from a sub-folder to the top level of the HD is gets erased or, in the case of folders, everything in it gets erased. The files are definitely totally gone - they are still missing even if I connect the drive directly to the computer.

So, whatever you do when you start having problems, don't start moving files around on the HD via the pogoplug.

I ran into the same problem with an HFS+ formatted drive. I was just trying to organize some files, and it looks very likely that I may have lost years of work thanks to this issue. I'm going to end up spending hours going through all the DVDs I have some of this data backed up on, but much of it is probably lost forever. I'm hoping Data Rescue can recover it. I don't know if I'll end up using a formatted NTFS drive or if I no longer will trust using the Pogoplug. I can't afford to lose such valuable data.

Does this address the Read-Only problem as well? If it addresses both issues, then I'll re-format my drive back to HFS+ cause I'd rather have 1 large volume than 3 smaller ones (my current limitation using NTFS).

Okay. I'm reformatting once again back to HFS+..I'm going on faith that both the zero file issue and the Read-Only problem are now gone. If the Read-Only problem pops up again, then I'll contact support directly.

Thanks much.

I've had some zero file length problems on my Linux box as well, but put it on the back burner, thinking I had done something. You might want to look at your ext3 support as well.