Folder names are to long for external H/D

[leon]

Excellent, thank you for your support.

Leon

[leon]

Andrew, I have connected and all is well however the download of the files are painfully slow, but i put that down to the very slow XP machine.

The external is doing its stuff, it is a USB 3 unit capable of USB 2 as well, but as i said it is so slow.

I have had it connected since 2pm yesterday and now at 7 pm the next day it is still going and only half way through.

It has 275 Gig to download, which comprises of some 90,000 photos, so i am just letting it run tonight as well.

What else is there to do

Leon

[pw (Peter)]

Your PC probably has USB 1, so slow no matter what you connect.
Get it backed up and go for something new.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by leon

What else is there to do

Sit back and relax. There isn't anything you can do about it. Once the first copy is complete incrementals should be faster. You could try SyncToy from M$ to do the copying.
If it was USB1 (Full-Bandwidth) you would expect it to take about 17 days.
USB2 (Hi-Speed) should be around 2 days so since you say it's half way there I'd say that's what you have.
USB3 (SuperSpeed) would be something like 4 hours.

[leon]

Thanks guys now i feel a bit better about it, i will just let it run and do it's stuff.

Leon

[leon]

Andrew, yep it is me again LOL, it is still running but close to the end, it has done all the larger Tiff/CR2's and is now working on the Jpegs, which are moving much better.

There was a power failure during the day and i was then able to see where it was at, so have started it up again and hopefully by nights end it will be done.

Time for a new machine i reckon.

Leon

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by leon

Andrew, yep it is me again LOL, it is still running but close to the end, it has done all the larger Tiff/CR2's and is now working on the Jpegs, which are moving much better.

There was a power failure during the day and i was then able to see where it was at, so have started it up again and hopefully by nights end it will be done.

Time for a new machine i reckon.

Time to get a UPS I'd say. You want one with a cable to connect to the PC and software to shut the PC down cleanly if the mains power goes away. I've got two (one Sola and one APC) since one won't power my gear (2 PCs and a NAS) for long enough.

Did you get SyncToy or something similar? You might find a few files didn't copy or didn't copy correctly when you lost power and one of the file sync programs will pick that up.