1151 Boringly, not a lot to update.
The copying of data from a portable harddrive onto the harddrives of the NAS continues.
…extremely slowly.
It's glacial at the best of times, but because it's unattended (I'm not going to sit and watch it for days on end), any error means the process is delayed until I'm next in attendance. Usually this simply consists of me clicking ‘Continue’, which always means the ‘error’ is a pathetically petty little hiccup.
But this is a rod I made myself for my own back.
Time is all that's needed, and I have ample time.
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Classic example today:
Started the copying of about 450GB of data last night, but didn't see it actually start the copying because the file-counting takes a long time, so I left it to it.
Came to look at it this afternoon (should have checked it first thing…) and it transpires that my mental arithmetic was slightly off, so I was short on space by 2GB (less than 0.5%).
This meant the whole copying was delayed until I turned up again to cancel that copying and start an ever-so-slightly smaller copying.
Is that the best way of doing it? Microsoft must think so. Perhaps another way is to just start the damn copying, and then throw up the error when the space is full, rather than just sitting there doing absolutely zark-all until a human looks at it again…
Interestingly, this copying is proceeding at 30-40MB\s, which is (relatively) astonishingly fast.
