multiple instances of the same drive showing up in WinExplorer: Pogoplugged

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March 21, 2010 8:07 PM

Are you ejecting them via the My.Pogoplug website and then plugging them back in?

I would recommend you exit the drive program, then eject the drives, do whatever you want then put the drives back on and see what happens.

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March 21, 2010 8:17 PM updated: March 21, 2010 8:27 PM

Well i don't do any ejecting I just take the pogo off line then I shut off the drive dock and plug them directly into my laptop using eSATA an then bring the pogoplug back online and I get a new drive added to my internet explorer. whats weird is that it only does it for one drive. There are two drives hooked up to one dock and that one dock has one usb connection to the pogoplug. Shouldn't it be doing this for both drives?

most importantly though I wan't to know how to get rid of them. I tried going to the storage snap-in via the manage console but it only shows directly connected drives.

Edit:
wow call me a complete noob. you mentioned the desktop software and I completely forgot about that. I opened up the setting and disabled multiple drives and the problem went away. I then re-enabled it and the correct number of drives are now present. That is most def a bug in the software.

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May 16, 2011 6:12 PM

I am starting to have the same problem. I'm running v3.0.2 of the Windows driver software.

I have shared one directory from my desktop ("Downloads"), mostly as an experiment. I've found that if I login to the same PP account on another machine, they can access each other's file directly instead of copying to the PP first.

BUT, now I have a P: and Q: drive.

P: has the following at the root level:
- Downloads
- SharedDrive
- Files shared with me

Q: has the following:
- SharedDrive
- Files shared with me

Looking at the running processes I see two "ppfs.exe" instances. I tried the "Reload Pogoplug drives" option. That makes Q: go away for about 10sec, then it comes back.

Another part of this riddle:
On my second machine I logged in as the same account and shared another directory. Then I logged out of PP as that user and logged-in as another and shared yet another directory. Back on my first machine I could *still see both shares* even though I was no longer logged-in as the first user.

I'm thinking the multiple ppfs.exe instance is the issue, but I don't know how to resolve it.

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May 17, 2011 2:56 PM

Try to switch to single drive mode

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May 17, 2011 3:00 PM

I have the defaults selected
- Enable Pogoplug drives (enabled)
- Show a separate drive for each Pogoplug drive (disabled)

To which option are you referring?

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May 20, 2011 3:49 PM

Bobman -- i was referring to "Show a separate drive for each Pogoplug drive (disabled)" and i see that you already did that.

But it's strange because your drive should be named Pogoplug and not WDC... when you using that setting.

Can you restart your computer and see if this still an issue, and if it is
send the logs from %APPDATA%\Pogoplug to the support team at (support@pogoplug.com).

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