Issue with removing multiple drives at once.

[Tony]

Hello.

Long story short.

• Ran out of space
• Bought new disks
• Emptied 3 small 120GB SSDs to be replaced with 4x 16TB drives.
• I Selected "Duplicate Files Later" for all 3 removing drives.
• Some files were duplicated between these 3 drives, not anywhere else.
• First disk removes fine.
• 2nd disk gets removed, but with files remaining on it.
• 3rd drive gets emptied until it gets to files for which no more duplicates exist.
• DrivePool is stuck on emptying.
• Tried several things, but had to resort to restarting Windows. (Soft)
• After boot, Drivepool takes a while to load, says 3rd disk is missing.
  • I re-add disk 2 and 3 because they show as not empty. Didn't want to take the risk.
• I check the removed drives.
  • 1st is empty
  • 2nd & 3rd have files on them left
    • None of these files have a duplicate in DrivePool
• I have to run disk repair to recover the files as they are no longer indexed.
  • Recovery does not put them in drivepoolpart folder so they are not automatically being duplicated back.

 

A user who doesn't understand what's going on might lose all this 'in limbo' data. Because even when manually checking the drives, you don't see the left-over folders and files without doing some kind of recovery first.

 

Suggestion, even when selecting "Duplicate Files Later", do a check if a duplicate still exists.

[Umfriend]

Also, if you use duplicate later, consider removing one disk at a time.