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JCMarsh

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    JCMarsh reacted to Shane in Removed drive not evacuated?   
    I've noticed that even when you _don't_ select Duplicate Later, copies of pooled files may remain on a removed disk. What seems to be happening is that, when removing a drive from the pool, DrivePool may encounter files that are being held open by Windows*. While it can't delete them, if it can still succeed in copying them, then it will continue to remove the drive from the pool.
     
    So if the removal process completes without any error/warning messages about lost/uncopyable files, then DrivePool has successfully copied all files that were in that poolpart to the rest of the pool, the poolpart folder on the drive will be set visible instead of hidden, and the drive can be physically removed even if files are still "on" the drive.
     
    *(I've noticed the Windows search/metadata engine in particular has a nasty habit of not bothering to release files straight away when it's done with them)
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