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In the last 3 months Ive had to scan my external hard drive a few time as songs go missing. rescanning the hard drive fixes everything fine. I've never had to do that and been using the same laptop and same external hard drive for over 2 years together and never seperate them. Any ideas why this has started happening in the past few months? Ive updated each time as soon as a new release comes out.

Funkmasterfrank
 
Posted Tue 27 Nov 12 @ 7:47 pm
2 years is a long time for a gigging drive, I think alot of fellas here switch out every year. Maybe your drive is on the way out.
 
Do you frig the drives at all Internal and External?
When was the last time you did "Error Checking"?
 
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Do you frig the drives at all Internal and External?


What does that mean. I'm sorry I don't understand your lingo
 
I have had the EXACT same issue in the past. Not recently though for some reason. I thought I was going crazy at first. Random tracks that I knew were scanned now showing up un-scanned. This happened on a brand new Toshiba ext. drive. Ran error checks, etc. no problems. I work in "tech" and everyone I've mentioned this to is at a loss to the cause of the problem. Seems like something is getting corrupted somewhere......Very strange indeed
 
funkmasterfrank wrote :
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Do you frig the drives at all Internal and External?


What does that mean. I'm sorry I don't understand your lingo


Substitute the word 'frig' with 'defragment'.
 
 
OK here we say defrag for short. I will try that. Tks

I know from experience microsoft access databases have this problem. they have a special tool to clean it up. Probably a similar scenario but a different type of database
 


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