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NTFS should be faster on Windows based machines; I'm thinking that if it were formatted as ext2 or ext3 that it would perform slower, but I could be mistaken.
Deleting that many files certainly might be faster if you plugged it directly into your machine - certainly worth a try. I've never tried deleted that quantity of files, or even close to it, through the Pogoplug Drive access - so I'm unsure if the speed you're experiencing is typical.
I attached a Maxtor USB drive to Pogoplug. After poking around a bit in the mapped P: drive, I saw a folder I no longer needed, and in Windows Explorer, clicked the folder and hit the Delete key. (actually Shift-Delete just to make sure there were no attempts to put stuff in a Recycle bin).
The folder only contains 3.8GB of data, but there are about 30,000 files. "Wow! 30,000 files!" you say?
Well, yes, it's an old Adobe Lightroom catalog folder that creates photo previews and metadata that can add up to a lot of individual small files in many subfolders.
The progress bar in Explorer says that it's going to take about 24 hours to delete these files.
What would be a better way to do this? Eject the drive using the web interface, then plug it directly into my computer and delete?
I welcome your ideas
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June 28, 2010 1:44 PM
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I did finally resort to ejecting the drive (with the Pogoplug web utility) and connecting locally. I'm guessing that the transcoding of the video content on the 'new' drive also slowed the process of deleting files.
On my primary laptop though, it mounted the drive, assigned it a drive letter, but did not allow me to open the contents ("Access denied"). No amount of
trying to change Properties would give me access to the contents of the drive.
Very odd...plugged back into Pogoplug and it seemed to read fine.
Ejected again and plugged into a different laptop and that seems to be working
Things that make you go hmmmmmmm......
In any case, the lesson learned is that when connecting a hard drive to Pogoplug that already has a bunch of stuff on it (that you may no longer need), make sure you do your deleting BEFORE you connect it to Pogoplug.
hbear
November 24, 2010 10:39 AM
Just a FYI, I also had slow performance deleting a cache type folder.
I just noticed that deleting a folder through the web browser interface deletes it within a few seconds. My drive is currently working, so I'm not sure if this is something then moved behind the scenes or if pogo is simply indexing. but either way, its better to have this moved "offline" from the computer you are using the pogo from.
January 29, 2011 12:03 PM
I'm experiencing this same problem. From the web browser it's fine, but via windows explorer using the P: drive it's ultra slow to delete.
I'm trying to use goodsync to backup, but deleting any files is making this unusable as it's so slow. Uploaded new files is fine.
Has anyone found a cure for this?
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It's an NTFS-formatted 300GB drive if that matters.
Related note--is there an advantage to changing drive format? Does it affect Windows access if it's formatted as ext2 or ext3?