Gbyrd

Yeah all is well both drive mounted, just one seems to have errors on it as it is showing up as a 4 KB remaining when in truth it should have TBs of space. Gotta run chkdsk again. Last time i ran it for a week and it never progressed passed a point. So i might have to run it forever in order for it to fix the drive.

Thanks updated. One drive is stuck in mounting in the software although the drive has shown up in my computer already. and the one that is broken is "connecting" Looks to be indexing data. Not sure why that one that is mounting is stuck on that because it should have alreayd successfully done so. Well hopefully it snaps out of it. Downloaded it, it no longer asking to chkdsk the files like it use to however, it did not complete a chkdsk on anything. It is still not reading back the files from the drive.

Yeah i don't know what to at this point so i am just letting it run at the moment. There really is no alternative as the data on the cloud is pretty useless if i can't read it back, how long did your chkdsk take and how much data did you have? just curious what the ballpark.

how were you able to run chkdsk from command line? I am unable to get that because the drive gets put into use and it asks to have it dismount before i do it. It's been running for a few days now. Don't know if the data is going to be recoverable at this point. Don't know whether to restart my computer or wait until the chkdsk is finished But it is a lot of data 7TBs not sure what to do

Pretty much as it say. My current google drive seems to be in a limbo. It has a chkdsk error and i am currently running it. It's been a few days and it progressed on day one and now its "stuck" checking SDs/SIDs. While waiting I thought to myself make another drive to temporarily put files in there. Or frankly redownload my entire library and if it the original drive comes back well no big deal. If it doesn't well I have this new drive anyway. What i am wondering is if i have the files in raw data inside my google drive already. Would it be feasible to copy all those contents into the new cloud drives so i don't have to go about redownloading everything? I know there is likely a check to ensure that the currently connecting CloudDrive owns the data and unobfuscate the raw data. But is there a way by chance to change that part so i can make my recovery process a bit easier. Thanks for any help.

Have not tried it yet. You have any luck? My drive is STILL running a chkdsk read which is god awfully long. I don't know whether to wait, or redownload everything on my drive cause at this point it seems like it would be faster.

Thanks for the response. My issue might be slightly different although similar. At least windows is asking me to do run a chkdsk. Which i am doing at the moment. So i am waiting for that to finish before i make any conclusions on the data. The crappy part is i can't download anything since the drive is not accessible. Hopefully this scan finishes soon and it gets back to a working state.

You might be able to use stable bit pool drive and make a new HDD from them. But i have personally never used that

This is something common i have found it happens when google fails uploads and it will just stop the drive from writing instead of dismounting. Ever since the .800 iteration i have had problems.

But if you're using it like that it is only gonna see what is physically in the cache drive. It won't show you what is in your cloud. So i don't think this is accurate.

Do you get chkdsk errors? I am just gonna wait for a bit and see what happens. I am in the midst of running chkdsk. After it runs i will check to see everything works hopefully. But seems to be the newer versions have something messed up. .802 had an upload issue and the newer ones seem to have corrupted everything else that was on the drive

yeah it looks like it, however i am getting a chkdsk prompt did you get that?. So i am running that first and then going from there. If my drive corrupted it would be absolutely shitty because i have 7TBs of data, and to redownload would be annoying, although not too bad but realistically next time i get a version that works completely fine i am not touching it with an update. If it ain't broke! It was working fine but it wasn't uploading. I was able to watch the shows with no problem. Updated it and then it fixed upload but broke the download. Gah

Might be because their type is dynamic

Fixed it, updated to another version and everything works now it appears.... Nothing seems to be downloading anymore so i dunno what to do. It is prefetching however it is never actually playing any video. Always that thought of is this the update that is gonna break my drive completely. Windows keeps asking me to chkdsk the drive, just curious how you run the chkdsk when cloud drive mounts the drive.

You have to detach your drive and reattach it on with the new drive cache. You cannot use external drives.

You cannot access files from google drive. They are obfuscated and only the software can read it You will have to redownload them. The software is the only way to view any data. It cannot connect to two machines at once. You will have to be detached on the other PC before you are able to mount it to another PC

you can simply restart and don't force shut down and it should shut down the app correctly. I have heard reports of people being unable to do it. however if you have a cache there just simply remove the cache and it will only reupload what is pending instead. It is a safer approach than having it re upload everything that you already have

Same problem, and i think it has to do with .802. Restarting is fine as long as you let it shut down properly

I am on 1.0.0.802 and every night the upload mysteriously stops. It was similar to an issue i use to have before where it would dismount overnight but on 802 it doesn't seem to dismount which is nice it just errors and stops uploading. I have a drive trace ready however it is not letting me upload via your contact us form because the limit is 10 MB and mine is about 13. How should i submit a ticket? Thanks

Yeah make sure you have prefetch set up correctly, more threads but not too much you will get throttled and 20 MB chunk sizes are good.

It isn't poor design though. If it shuts down randomly in the middle of an upload. How will it know what it has uploaded yet or not. The data is unreliable it is better to reupload the entire cache than to deal with the data inconsistencies. I personally clear cache often, this prevents that from happening to me. It has happened and it is annoying however it is one of those things that makes sense. And if you attempt a shut down and you force the shut down on windows. That will kill processes that are still active and give you a problem when you restart it.

I can give some input on number 2. The drive acts as a regular mounted drive on a system. So if you can encrypt the drive itself via any means you should be able to have it function as you want. However the data cache exists on a drive as a hidden folder. And if that were to be encrypted by say a cryptolocker the files would not be able to be read from the cache. So if anything you have pending to upload to the cloud or have it stored locally that could be encrypted and inaccessible. So a more recent backup may be unavailable, which is not great for your use case. This is from my experience of working with the product. Drashna could probably enlighten you a bit more about this.

Gonna try these settings, at the moment it has worked fine but it pauses to essentially buffer which is what i am trying to fix. Have you tried to access to videos at once via plex? I am curious how the performance is to access multiple vids

my cache is about 300 GB, i plan to expand it more, as i put things back there. But so far it's been pretty awesome

Thanks i always thought anything that was prefetched ends up being cached, but clearly that isn't the case.