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I did exactly what Shane Recommended for my situation. I have 27 Directorys. # thru Z Based on file sizes and all, I have kept them balanced pretty well but when I read this post, I found the same problem on mine. It seems DP won't trigger until some parameters are met that I can't see. All of my big drives are listed as Archival and Duplication. I have a 1 Tb SSD drive partitioned 3/4 as Boot 1/4 as Z: All of files go to the Z: and get moved to T: as Archival and Retrieval for Plex. After a Main reset and reentering all of the File Placement Rules, My system fixed all of the problems. Now I can disconnect my Probox, add my Linkstar from seeed studio and I can watch all of my shows without losing an episode.

I use Remove Empty Directories from this website https://www.jonasjohn.de/red.htm You can use the simple method with the GUI. I just select the PoolPart for each of the drives. Scan it and delete. Since I only use the Main Drive letter I must assign a temporary Drive letter to each partition. I use it because sometimes the directory has sensitive information in the label. Once a month is good enough.

Had this happen to me also. Don't know what happened bu I can tell you how I fixed it. 1. If they are not. Assign a drive letter to each pool drive then run chkdsk with a /R 2. After all have been done. Power Down your computer and unplug the cord. 3. Press the power button again and watch for a flash. Wait a minute. 4. Power back up up holding windows key down. 5. Allow a few minutes for system to settle down. Check Stablebit and should be okay. I think that sometime during the last week or two a supply chain for an update was sent out that turned off some background functions. I am using a GA-78LMT-USB3 board by Gigabyte. Everything was great on Windows 7 and rain fine. When I upgraded to Windows 10, I noticed a driver would not initialize. After days of checking, I found it to be board level device that did not affect anything I had configured. Now after may update, that Board Level Device is bouncing back and forth between background functions and has settled into the USB section Mine was in the Generic Superspeed USB HUB. When I did the above. The problem went away and all 14 drives are online and have not been ofline since. I suggest GRC InControl. Goggle that as I don't like to add links that will go away

Dear PhoenixEvo I understand your plite. I did the same thing. I had my DrivePool active on my Windows 7 system. I upgraded the OS to Windows 10. I then looked into Storage Space. The one thing I overlooked as the same happened to you. Storage Spaces Low level formats all drives involved and deletes any hope of recovering the partition and the directory. If you hadn't touched any of the drives, It would be a perfect time to use Spinrite on each drive. Spinrite is a utility available on grc.com. It took me a while but I got ALL of my files back and the partition was restored.

Stablebit DrivePool Version 3.2.1466 Beta Version. Situation.... Run a 54.6 TB Pool with Directory as such T:\A\ etc etc . Each Root of the Pool is an Alphabet giving 27 Root Directories for all # being for numbers. Previously, the drives would need a complete reset to everything in order to balance the system. Using 100% of the drive had proven fatal as when the drive is TOTALLY filled, you have to delete SOMETHING for the repair program to fix it. Scanner does a great job but it CANNOT work on a TOTALLY filled drive it errors out. Yesterday, A large file was being sent to the Pool with a restriction on the Root to just one drive. Granted the copy failed but I did get a "Failed to Enumerate FOLDER" error. I bring this up because after I rebooted and rebuilt the pool the problem went away. This bring me to my suggestion. As I am unable to make a decent plugin and I have looked at them all for what would work. Here is my suggestion ... Allow a plugin to be called up if a folder is too big to the drive assigned in Stablebit Pool that has other folders that can be moved by the File Placement rules. I have also noticed that the system works on each rule from top down. While this is generally great, I would love it to be able to skip that File Placement rule upon an error and go to the next one. Then check to see if all rules have been satisfied and run thru again. Only after maybe three complete passes of all rules will it fail and you would either have to enlarge your pool or do some serious pruning of excess files. If this can be possible, I would love to see it placed in the Beta or a plugin. I left all initial settings : StableBit Scanner - Prevent Drive Overfill - Drive Usage Limiter all the rest are unchecked. I tried the All-In-One but it turned out to not fit what I wanted. Thanks so much for a great piece of software that is much better than Microsoft's Storage Spaces.

A very simple procedure that works for me. I've done it loads of times and it always worked fine for me. 1. Define a drive letter to your old drive and new drive. That is if you don't have one assigned as default... 2. Using file explorer open old drive Poolpart. 3. Highlight all contents and MOVE them to root of drive. Poolpart on that drive will be empty now. 4. Go into drive pool program and select remeasure pool. Allow it to finish. When it does you will see all of the files on the old drive is grayed out. If not you will have to wait some more on next move. It has happened to me so be patience. 5. Select remove the old drive from the Pool. If some files are hung somewhere in the ether, They will come out and be placed back in the Pool on the remaining drives. 8. Copy all of the files from the old drive to the new drive using a program that you trust. You can use file explorer but I don't because the drive/files are damaged 7. Add the new drive to the existing pool. 8. Now the last part Move all of the contents of the new drive, minus any hidden files to the Poolpart on the new drives. 9. Open Stablebit Pool and remeasure. Your drive has been swapped out and you have verified all files with your transfer action. Happy Pooling Jonibhoni: Yes I agree with you. Let DrivePool do the heavy moving if you are not sure. I on the other hand want to get to the files directly. I use a file scanning program because of many reasons. Exspecially with some of the 4TB USB Bricks that are sold. You have to bypass the USB side and bump it to SATA. (Youtube video shows that) BTW... DrivePool will correct most of the problems when you remeasure. I could have gone to Storage Spaces but DrivePool is much better and has more control.

I have had this happen to my system many times. My solution is easy. Power down your system. Turn off all external drives. I have a 8 bay external. I also have a USB Hub with externals attached. The HUB has switches to turn the drives on or off. Boot up your system and check your startups. I remove all but the most critical such as USB Monitor and any specific motherboard drivers that must be loaded. I then use Device Cleanup from https://www.uwe-sieber.de/ When all the garbage is clear. I reboot the system . Allow it to settle down and turn on all hard drives 1 at a time. Even drivepool tries to load at the same time a HD request is made. That has caused drive to go stupid. I find that if I force the system to reload the device driver for the drives. It fixes it.

No Problem. If you start the Scanner an look down the status column. The scanner will have identified the drive as Damaged. My suggestion is to use Spinrite from GRC.com to read the damaged areas for any data you want to keep and either lock out that damaged area or try to fix it. Spinrite is from Steve Gibson and has worked on a lot of hard drives I have. Usually this type of error is the result of the manufacturer and not due to mishandling of the drive. I can tell you for sure you would have had a larger number on a dropped drive. if you come to the end of your rope. Here is a last ditch effort I use on shaky drives. 1. Fill the drive with info from a spare drive of the same size. 2. Move the info from the affected drive back to your spare drive. When you get the error that the file can't be moved them rename the file Damaged01.dat and make it hidden Your drive will still have some use in it but then I suggest you turn off the notifications for that drive.

I've had Stablebit for years and never had so much as a problem until now. I organized a Drivepool as T: and all subdirectories as A,B,C,etc. They contain all of my TV Series and have been fine for a long time. Until the system somehow reset all of the settings and then balanced the entire pool across 10 8TB drives. I had all of the A on one drive and B on the next and so forth according to the whole size of the series. It was simple math to combine Z Y X V on one drive and use a small rule for each of the others to keep the drives and the files organized. The duplication was on separate drives also. Until one day when an external 4TB USB Brick started going offline and then back online. My system basically crashed and burned. All of the pool drives reset and began moving files nilly willy. When I tried to reset all of the rules on the different directories the system tried but eventually the system ground to a halt. The files were in worse shape and I had to spend hours and I mean hours moving files. I just want to let everyone know that this can happen. And yes, it happened when I did not upgrade from the 12 version. I upgraded and I will let you know the results. I even tried making rules 3 levels deep. No joy.

Sorry Never got back. I had the problem with the drives going missing because of the removal of the drive letter. I used the workaround Chris mentioned with the Diskpart and I was sure that would fix the problem. Unfortunately, I had the same problem. One thing I did find worked great was the use of RED 2.2. Stablebit Drivepool is still the best program for JOBD service.

Hope Chris is doing okay as I haven't been on in quite a while. Question to look into. Been a user of StableBit for a long long time. Even prefer it over Windows 10 Storage spaces. Recently a drive started giving problems. Wasn't sure what to do. it resided in a Probox 8 and preformed great for many years on win 7 pro. When I changed over to Win 10 Pro, I noticed the count of directory entries on each of the Pool Partitions. The Drive that was giving me problems had all of them too. Most were empty due to the rolling scheme I had set up to ensure all drives would be good. I use the all in one to rotate the drives always cleaning a drive so I can reformat it. Check its condition and do some housekeeping on my system. That's when I discovered the system was choking on the empty directories and had just stopped. Used RED 2.2 on the Pools and the problem cleared up. Just a heads up. Running 2.2.5.1237. Would like to try the Beta but I don't want to because of the shaky drive. Thanks

For A LONG Time. Stablebit allowed you to add/remove/use a drive with no letter designation. Worked great with windows 7. Only when I moved to Windows 10 Pro did the problems start to compound. I have now established that Stablebit is UNstable unless it had a Drive designation on all drives in the pool. This has limited me to the limitations once again. With 8 TB and 4 TB drives. When one goes offline for a unknown reason, I feel as this is not a nice thing. I have assigned ALL drives and partitions and I am out of letters. I can only hope someone in the forum can fix this because Storage spaces sucks and I am out of options. I have to remove all duplicating partitions on the drives Lucky this only affected 1 drive but it still sucks. I don't feel angry towards Chris because he has worked on this for a long time and got it right. Since I have bought the license, I have seen Cloud services get promoted so much that now I had to give up all those months of uploading to servers to only be told I had to pay a small fortune to keep it. I do praise his inception of Cloud storage because I can say without a doubt that NO ONE can decrypt my files. They can have the files. They can KMA. For anyone interested. The problem started when a small power drop caused the system to go offline all at once. My battery backup kept the system from crashing and I did a controlled shutdown. My only guess is that when the internet went down. The system was unpacking a file or was connected to a cloud service. The only drive that went offline with no partitions was the one I was saving the files to at the time. Nope no log file to pass on so I'm sorry.

I have uninstalled StableBit Drivepool once for that very reason. One of the antivirus programs had locked it out. As you have found out your data is still there on the drives but cannot be accessed by Drivepool unless you go under the GUI. My advice is the one I offer. 1. Goto all of the drives and move your files from the PoolPart to the Base tree of the drive. For example... PoolPart.37ad71b3-16ca-45c4-8c66-34380f727842 Drill Down and you find TV Series on mine on one of my drives. I move the TV Series with a simple Right Click to the same directory as the above PoolPart. I did this with all drives. 2. Deactive your License if you can. Very important...... If you cant then you have to get your license cleared by Sysop 3.Uninstall Drivepool and run a registry cleaning program. 4. Reinstall Drivepool and add it to your antivirus program as an exclusion. 5. Create New Drivepools and add the drives you have previously had. 6. Look at each of the new drives and move the files back under the New PoolPart created by your new installation. 7. Have drive pool remeasure your drives and do its thing for checking your file structure and etc. I did it this way and got all of my data reset and working with a lot less strain on my heart. I praise Chris for a great program that I have used for many a years and have 2 machines humming with USB Drives and hardly any problems. The only time problems happen is when other programs try to screw with Drivepool. Hope this helps.

Its a little late in the game but here goes. The biggest task will be allowing your drives to Balance with the Proper File Settings. For Example Mine. My system is set up according to the Alphabet Sweet and Simple. Drive Pool 1 is set to T: and Labeled as TV Series - subfolders # thru Z This allow Sonarr to run and update TV Series. All active Shows are set to use Season Folders with Format for Shows as Covert Affairs - 01X01-02 - Pilot. When the Series has ended and all episodes are viewed. The Show is marked as UNMonitored. Then it is optimized for TV using the settings in PLEX. If the file is not on the active viewing, it is Zipped in a fashion that Windows 7 can access it . It is read only locked The file will look like Covert Affairs (Complete). DrivePool can be instructed to Store That Completed file on a particular disk using the plugin When you are ready, You can shut the computer down remove the drive, and start it back up When DrivePool shows its missing. Remove it. If the Drivepool has completely Arranged the drive right, you will be able to move the files from under the PoolPart. The Files will be available most ways possible. Place a ! in front of the PooPart Entry and it will not join a Pool Partition until your remove the ! from the file. Keep your 10 TB for updates, move them when they are finished. A Great Bat files checks mine to ensure it is ready and the file is moved to the drive that will keep the copy.

Answers to my questions. Thanks. The only addition to the question is #2. If the drive is detached from mine and then I go to another computer. I have a valid CloudDrive on it Can I log into the Drive on the other computer. Explanation: I am cleaning and maintaining an inventory of custom pens for a website. If I want to work on the database, I have to download the files. Takes a while, and upload it back. Drive has High Res photos of Pens that don't need to be moved up and down.