[Removing *.copytemp files]

I have been using DrivePool for a while and love it. I currently have three *.copytemp files on my pool, taking up about 2TB of space. I found this, which is helpful. but I was wondering what the files contain and whether any data would be lost upon their deletion. My pool is still currently duplicating, but these files have been around since the beginning of February this year. Will they disappear when the pool is fully duplicated, and presuambly the available space in my pool is going to reduce by 2TB?

[Removing external drives from a pool]

50 minutes ago, Shane said:

If you need to remove the Elements drive from the pool without crashing your computer, shut down the computer first and then unplug the drive and keep it unplugged; when you restart the computer, the drive will be listed as "missing" in the DrivePool GUI, and you should be able to Remove it from the pool while it is unplugged without causing a BSOD - if your pool has duplication turned on then it should proceed to reduplicate any files that had been balanced onto the Elements drive.

Surely if I need to do that, it's exactly the same outcome, as either way, the computer needs to be restarted, when that shouldn't be the case?

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If your pool didn't have duplication turned on (for the whole drive / for all folders) then some files may have ended up "trapped" on the Elements drive and you will have to manually recover them. Please feel free to message me if you need help with that.

I had x2 duplication turned on for the pool. I have now shucked the disk, and I am attempting to connect it to the system via an external dock (although I am aware that I need to tape the 3rd pin to make it show up, which I need to buy some tape to do).  

[Removing external drives from a pool]

8 hours ago, Shane said:

DrivePool will complain if a disk goes unexpectedly missing from a pool (as opposed to you clicking on the disk's Remove option in the DrivePool GUI) but it should do so via a normal error notification, not via a blue-screen. When you say you accidentally removed the disk, do you mean via the Remove option or via physical removal?

If via physical removal, does the PC still blue-screen if you disconnect the drive when it is NOT part of any pool?

.... actually, you mentioned your speaker freaking out. Was it like a screech, buzz and/or thump rather than a beep or continuous tone? If any of the former, you might also want to check that your equipment is all properly earthed.

The first time, I removed the drive by clicking remove in DrivePool, and not stopping the sync. It blue-screened. The second time, I stopped the sync, and removed it in DrivePool. It blue-screened again. I think perhaps the reason my speaker freaked out was because at the time I received the blue screen, I was playing media, and I believe that removing a speaker whilst media is playing makes an awful noise. 

[Removing external drives from a pool]

I have just bought an 8TB WD Elements, and I have yet to shuck it. I though I would just test it by adding it to my DrivePool, and adding it seemed fine; it added and showed the updated pool capacity in Windows. But when I tried to remove it, my PC blue-screened with an APC_INDEX_MISMATCH error or something like that. I first removed it (accidentally) whilst it was syncing, as I hadn't noticed it was on auto-balance.

Then, once I had got over the shock of my speaker freaking out and scaring the crap out of me, I went back to work. Later, I tried removing the disk in DrivePool after ensuring that the auto-balance was disabled. Same result, only my speaker didn't freak out. Is there a special way to remove external drives from a DrivePool? I plan on shucking the disk eventually, but before I get the chance to put it in my system, it will be attached to an external enclosure, and I'd still like to have it in my pool before I can actually connect it internally.

[Drive Pool not showing up!]

I wanted to add a new drive to my pool. I could only do this with  bit of cable management. So I had to unplug all the drives, including those which were part of the pool. To do this I shut down the computer, did the cable management and started it up again. Now, the drives which are part of the pool no longer show up in BIOS. I tried reseating the power connectors and SATA cables, as well as trying different SATA ports, and nothing. Have I broken something? How can I access my drives again?

[How does the system work?]

I recently heard about StableBit DrivePool as a way to turn multiple volumes into a single volume in File Explorer. I wanted to ask how this was done; is the process that is used closer to a RAID-0 setup, with no redundancy, such that if one drive fails, all the data is lost, or is the setup such that if a drive fails the data on the failed drive isn't lost?