Adrian

I have had this problem a couple of times now (incorrectly ordered permissions) I started with a pool made from three freshly formatted drives. I turned 2x duplication on and copied a whole load of files to the pool. I thought I would have a little play so changed duplication to 3x. At the end of the duplication pass drivepool flagged it had had problems with some files - not able to get oplocks on them so implying they were in use. On looking at the specific files they were family photos in a folder that had not been accessed by anything that I could think of**(see edit) so I just clicked the duplicate now button and thought nothing of it. After this pass it again said it couldn't get oplocks on the files. On looking a bit closer, Windows complained that the permissions on the folder that contained the files were incorrectly ordered. Now, this is a bit odd as there are several hundred files in the folder and as far as I can see Drivepool is only complaining about a few of them (although it may be not showing the full list of course). Now, I am fairly sure that the permissions were okay when the files were copied to the pool - indeed that were copied from an external HDD with a FAT partition so no NTFS permissions should have been copied. This is actually the second time this sort of thing happened to me. The first time I just fixed the problem and put it down to cosmic rays or something but now it has happened again I am wondering if there is something in DP that might be a teeny bit awry. WIndows 8.1, DP Version StableBit.DrivePool_2.1.1.561_x64 Edit: Not strictly true. The folder in question was shared and files (pictures) were being displayed by an HTPC screen saver, but I don't think this invalidates the permissions - the files were not being modified and the folder permissions were not accessible to any other device as the folder was the item shared and therefore not seen by "share-ees". The permissions were wrong on the folder and inherited to the files.

Thanks Drashna. Might I suggest an FAQ might be created with details of the things that OneDrive doesn't support rather than waiting for each new user to discover them. One day, someone might lose some important data. Adrian

I have been doing some testing with OneDrive on a DrivePool pool on Windows 8.1 I emptied my OneDrive (in its default location in my profile on an unpooled drive C:) and created a number of small files in it (text files with some random text in each). I used Properties of OneDrive | Location tab to move onedrive to a folder on a pool. Within a couple of minutes Onedrive created a number of copies of a few (not all) of the txt files with a numeric suffix (eg -2 or -3 etc). The files have zero bytes. OneDrive then syncs these empty fies to the cloud. Subsequently, onedrive seems to crash (although I can find no specific logs) - the icon in the tray disappears. if it is manually restarted it runs a little while but does not seem to "notice" changes in the files in the onedrive folder - it only syncs if it is requested (using the tray icon menu). Basically, it is just "flakey". If I reverse the process and move the OneDrive folder back to a normal drive OneDrive operates normally. Is DrivePool compatible with OneDrive does anyone know?

Ah, so it isn't just me not being able to find the settings... they don't exist! Thanks Drashna.

Hi, Does anyone know if there is any way to set drivepool to notify on duplication warnings? Unless I keep an eye on it by regularly logging in and checking, I don't know if there are any (for example) warnings of misduplicated files that need resolving. I can't see any way of adding this to the warnings email facility - it appears only to have "Notifications for missing disk". Thanks!