>get software to read/write Mac formatted external HDD on PC>highly rated, tons of good reviews over the years>works perfectly, does exactly what I want it to>turn off PC normally, satisfied that I've found a solution to this problem ...>restart PC a while later>HDD is unusable, corrupted to hell and back guess I'll shart
tranny
>>135678 No trannies here afaik On old Yli we had Jesse and the ryssäs (ebin band name btw)
did you lose important stuff?
you should find creators of the software and beat them up
>>135682 Idk if I've fully lost anything yet, I attached the drive to my old Mac again and am trying to backup what I can in recovery mode, will take ages though. Also there's a bunch of repair tools that I could try, we'll see. >>135685 I might give them a virtual beatup in the form of a strongly worded email if I actually lose my files now.
>>135690 sopsy's fault
>>135694 Probably ye When in doubt, blame Soppy
o nonono dogspeed
yeah, I wouldn't recommend mixing mac drives with a pc. best to just copy all data to a neutral disk format and then reformat to something pc-compatible if you really want to keep using it
>>135815 Ye, that's a lesson learned the hard way then, although exFAT vs currentlyFAT aka Soppy has an even bigger risk of corruption than this stuff apparently. Probably just need to use cloud stuff to transfer files between the two devices.
>>135832 do you have many files over 4GB? if not regular FAT32 works fine (although if it's a solid state drive, it's maybe not great for that, exFAT is supposed to be optimized for flash storage in addition to larger size limits I think)
>>135834>do you have many files over 4GB? Enough to make regular FAT32 a bit difficult for my purposes. But oh well, if I just put them all on Mega or whatever it's not too bad, just need to wait for some ebin discount.
>>135835 the other option is to use an archiver that lets you split files at a certain size to break those big files up for transfer purposes. perhaps you could even just make an archive of the entire userdata folder as 4GB chunks since it's much faster to copy a few large files than hundreds of thousands of little files. I don't know if I'd recommend exFAT or not, I've got several flash storage "drives" with music on them and foobar sometimes detects errors during playback. I just scanned the exFAT drive with about 6500 songs on it and got 69 failures and 232 minor errors. some of the failures are just file not found due to renaming, but that's still a lot of minor errors which concerns me, particularly since several of them are from albums I ripped myself and didn't come from p2p at all. I'm not sure how to separate flash write-management shuffling issues from filesystem issues. at this point I'm kinda leaning towards flash not being great for long term data integrity.
>>135839 Ty for advice, we'll se what I can do once this file recovery stuff is done.
>>135846 other thing that is probably not relevant but I found out the hard way, sort of: you should not try to modify a (windows) drive that has been hibernated - apparently the filesystem table is cached or something and even though you can read all the data as normal when connecting to another system, the changes to the fs entries are lost permanently upon resuming from hibernation, causing files to point to the wrong data
