I'm not familiar with "WinDrive". My 5TB USB drive is Seagate Backup Plus
formatted to NTFS with a GPT (to handle drives larger than 2TB).
Since you said you could see the files from the first machine, the data was
likely there. If you cannot see any files on the same drive from the second
machine, I'd get another Windows 10 machine to see if it can read any files on
the same drive. If not,the "WinDrive" is suspect.
BTW, I also have a 2TB drive powered by the USB port - that device occasionally
fails if the host cannot power the drive, i.e., the port can't handle the 500
mA peak demand from the drive, so it disconnects and the data corrupts. It's a
nuisance, but it works most of the time. I generate checksums for my critical
files so I can just destroy corrupt files and get another copy (I keep three
copies of all my critical stuff).
- Art
On Friday, September 15, 2017, 7:21:13 PM EDT, Roger Oliver
<[email protected]> wrote:
Windows 7 and 10. Mostly interested in a backup copy off the main computer in
case it crashes. Mine did, the Windows 10 machine. All my GC data was restored
from the Carbonite backup. Grateful it worked. The 7 machine is at the school
dedicated to accounting. I think there is something wrong with the WinDrive
external hard drive. Thanks!
On Sep 15, 2017 6:08 PM, "Art" <[email protected]> wrote:
What are the OSes on the source and target computers?What is the external hard
disk filesystem and how do you know it's compatible with both computers?
I assume you are able to run GC on both computers, hence the point of copying
the db to the second one. E.g., I routinely archive my db from my Ubuntu 17.04
machine to a 5TB USB drive so I can restore it to my Windows 10 laptop when I'm
on the road and vice versa to sync my backup repository.
- Art
On Friday, September 15, 2017, 6:13:36 PM EDT, Roger Oliver
<[email protected]> wrote:
I can't seem to get the GnuCash files to back up to an external hard disk.
The files show that they are there but when I try to find them on another
computer to have a copy off site, the files are not there. What am I doing
wrong? Thanks, Roger Oliver
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