I am hoping that by converting this bug into a question I can get some
advice on how to deal with my faulty WD hardrive, to somehow speed it up
or save my materials or (*the best of all) how to make it work again
without - the worst case scenario, reformatting it. Thanks again for any
help or advice on how to deal with this problem.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Converted to question:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/606588
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1677370
Title:
very slow file copying in Ubuntu 16.04 to and from external hard drive
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
My setup: 16.04 xenial, Kernel : Linux 4.4.0-67-generic
Problem with a WD elements 10A8, a 1 TB large external hard drive 32fat.
After searching for a duplicate I decided to file this bug report
while realizing a lot of the people reporting on the Bug #1208993
reported by Merlijn Sebrechts on 2013-08-06 probably had the same
issue as me (that bug report seems to mix two separate issues).
My hard drive was working just fine till two weeks ago, when I started
copying about 10 GB of files on it, when I came back it was 50% and still
churning away, the copying seemed to have trickled to zero. Since then I tried
to copy other files (even relatively small ones 700 MG ones) back and forth
from it - and the slowness was maddening. I repeat the drive was fine, just
some weeks ago, and I don't think it is a nautilus issue from what I
understand, although it seems to affect other people.
Still it is not the freezing while copying bug (mentioned above) or the
slowing down in the bar when reaching 90%, mentioned in other reports. It just
is slow from one end to the other, while I never had problems with it before,
everything got suddenly 10x slower. It is also affecting just this one drive
and it is linked to Linux. I tried other usb sticks and drives and I didn't
have this issue. I also tried copying the same files on Windows and the speed
is just fine. So I am not talking about several files or big files, just normal
ones seem to be a problem. Since then the drive is nearly unusable, as I am
having all this data stored but it is just nerve wrecking to try and copy them
even one by one.
Any help or any advice is highly appreciated or redirect to other
[solved] or related known issues.
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