billyboy12

I've checked the advanced permissions for the pool as well as the hidden poolpart folder on the problem drive, they look just like the ones in your example images in your linked thread. So does this mean my NTFS permissions are OK? Nothing happened! I clicked "balance" and it ran for a few seconds then stopped! *EDIT* Seem it was a permission issue in the end! I followed the guide at https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q5510455 and this fixed it, I was able to remove the drive!

I've been using DrivePool for many years, and I've re-arranged my pool many times. But I'm struggling to remove one of my disks, I keep getting a "error removing drive" message, and when clicking "details" it says "access is denied". I've tried all kinds of things, like checking "force-close any files" and using the drive usage limiter and setting the problem drive to not have anything stored on it, but nothing works! One thing I have noticed, is the error always pops up at the same point. If I do a balance, so the drive fills up again, then try to remove it, it'll go so far, before throwing up the error. At this point, trying again will throw up the error right away. Looking under "disk activity" it seems to be accessing 2 desktop.ini files, and I've tried removing these files, but this didn't help.

I originally started this thread for an issue that's now resolved, but a different issue has popped up since then! I have a SSD I use with the SSD optimizer plugin. Just now, Drivepool has decided to duplicate some random files on my SSD, even though I don't have duplication enabled! It seems to fail though, as it throws up a duplication warning after it finishes. Any idea how to fix this? *ORIGINAL PROBLEM TO FOLLOW* I use Drivepool to turn 3 mechanical drives (and one SSD for the SSD optimizer plugin) into one big drive for media. All has been well, until just now, when I opened my media drive and noticed a lot of my icons were broken (I use icon files to change the folders into cover art). I checked the folders and the cause was the icon files were missing! I also noticed a lot of the video files that should be in these folders are gone too! What happened?? The only changes I recently made to Drivepool was I added and removed a drive from a different pool and disabled the drive usage limiter plugin on my media pool since I don't use file duplication. I've checked the PoolPart folders on the drive and I've noticed there are duplicates of the same folder that also appears on the other drive's PoolPart folder, only this folder is empty, if that means anything. The drives themselves seem to be fine. *EDIT* It seems the cause of my issue was one of the HDDs decided to suddenly disappear, which is a bit strange. Rebooting bought it back online and fixed the missed files. Though for some reason, Drivepool has decided to randomly duplicate some files on my SSD buffer drive, despite that I don't have duplication enabled for this pool!