Additional PoolPart folder appearing

[hugson]

I've had multiple disk problems on multiple disks. After 6 weeks of comprehensive testing, the company that built my PC found a single faulty disk, which will be replaced under warranty.

Upon receiving my computer last week, my DrivePool consisted of 3 drives only (should be 4). I also use Snapraid with a single parity drive. Upon attempting to restore my missing disk with Snapraid, I recovered only 463GB out of some 3.3TB. My recovery procedure was this:

- Stop DrivePool and Scanner
- Restore, with Snapraid, missing folders and files to new drive, with a Poolpart folder that I created with the same name as the original
- restart DrivePool
- add restored Poolpart folder to DrivePool

Upon doing a remeasure, I end up with the original Poolpart folder populated with the 463GB of files Snapraid managed to restore, plus a new, empty Poolpart folder.
Where does this empty folder come from? I can delete it, but the next remeasure creates another one.

How should I proceed please?

[Shane]

Hi, if an old drive that held a poolpart has been replaced then adding the replacement drive to the pool normally results in the new drive receiving a new poolpart folder with a new identification string from DrivePool.

You can test this by placing unique files in each of the poolpart folders (the one you created and the one drivepool creates) on the disk and seeing which one appears in your pool.

If you are sure that your content in the old poolpart folder you restored lines up with up your expectations then you could stop drivepool, move your content from the old poolpart folder into the new poolpart folder, start drivepool and perform a re-measure. The moved content should reappear in the pool. Don't attempt to move the hidden System Volume Information, $RECYCLE.BIN or .covefs folders; they will not be valid for the new poolpart.