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  1. On 1/14/2022 at 10:01 AM, CptKirk1 said:

    1. Will my current key work for the new versions or will I need to purchase again?

    The licenses are good for any version of that product. 

    However, you will want to deactivate the licenses prior to wiping the system.  Or contact support directly to get your licenses deactivated.

    The licenses belong to you, not the hardware they're activated on, and are not locked to a specific version.

    On 1/14/2022 at 10:01 AM, CptKirk1 said:

    2. After installing the new versions after I plug in the 4 HDs will they just automatically be recognized and usable?

    Yup!

  2. On 1/21/2022 at 6:54 AM, 42Andreas said:

    As I understand there is no good way (beside bitlocker) of getting full encrypted drives to drivepool. (Maybe Disccryptor, but not 100%..)

    DiskCryptor should work for this, yes.

    Also, StableBit CloudDrive's local disk provider would also work for this.

  3. Just a heads up, some HBAs can mess with the partitioning information.  It's rare, but not unheard of. 

    if you haven't already, try remeasuring the pool.  If that doesn't fix the issue, run a CHKDSK pass on the disks in question.

    Also, make sure that each of the disks has a hiddle "poolpart.xxxxx" folder in the root of the drive. 

  4. On 1/30/2022 at 7:04 AM, Ac3M said:

    It looks like all folders that exists on the individual disks pool-folders appear under the DrivePool, but when trying to change permissions it tries to access those from the offline disks

    It wouldn't. Period.  It would error out, because when you have missing disks in the pool, the pool is put into a read only state.  So you can access the files and folders that are still present on the connected disks, but you cannot write to the pool, nor change permissions on the pool.

     

  5. That's intential.  It should use as much cache is set.  Also, "to-upload" cache can exceed the set amount, if the type is set to expandable (default). 

    You can set a fixed size if you want to make sure that it doesn't grow past a set size, no matter what. 

     

  6. On 10/6/2021 at 5:55 AM, Farmand said:

    Have anyone tested upgrading your existing windows 10 Professional to Windows 11 Professional with clouddrive installed and working????

    Upgrades like that are tricky.  They tend to nuke a lot of things (such as system services and drivers). 

    It should work fine, but  I would still recommend uninstalling StableBit CloudDrive first, upgrade to Windows 11, and then reinstall StableBit CloudDrive. 

    This makes sure that the correct driver is installed, and that it's installed correctly.   Especially as we've had a number of people that have had to reinstall or repair StableBit DrivePool and StableBit CloudDrive after upgrading. 

     

  7. No.   Storage Spaces uses a block based method for storing the data, while StableBit DrivePool uses a file based method.  So there is no direct way to convert. 

    You'd have to remove the drives from the Storage Spaces array (which is destructive, eg, wipes the data), and then add the disks to a pool.  

     

    However, you can add a Storage Spaces array to a pool, and use it directly that way, until you have enough storage to break the Storage Spaces array and re-add those disks. 

  8. StableBit Scanner doesn't write to any disks without explicit permission, aside from it's settings store.  So, that wouldn't have.

    StableBit DrivePool only writes to disks in a pool, and it's settings store. 

    So, if a non-pooled disk was effected, then that's unusual.  If you have had any unplanned power loss, eg BSOD's, hard resets, etc, then it can potentially cause file system corruption like this.  Also, hot plugging drives can cause issues, too.

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