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13th Oct 2009, 16:38
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Ok, here's the deal.
On my 1TB external HDD, I have one folder with about 500GB of avi files. Whenever I try to open that folder the green bar at the top of Windows Explorer takes a long time to load. The hard drive light just blinks constantly and whenever I try to play a file then VLC media player just can't play it and then I get VLC error messages and I also get "Wndows Explorer has stopped working..." frequently. I've tried it on 3 different laptops with Vista and have identical problems. When I plug it in a Mac, it works fine. So I'm assuming it's a Vista problem and I've done some research and it seems Vista and avi files don't get on. Also, when I can access it before it messes up and I try to transfer files, it either takes a very long time or just causes error messages. My old hard drive just became unaccessible and wouldn't detect on any computers or Macs. But I can acess this one. When I access folders with just documents it works fine, it's just the folder withe avi files that messes everything up. Is there a fix for this? Also, if worse comes to worst, is there way to recover the files on it and format or something? |
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13th Oct 2009, 16:46
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Turn off thumbnailing, first. If the system is trying to thumbnail all those AVIs it will crash and burn.
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13th Oct 2009, 16:53
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Brilliant, how do I do that?
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#4
13th Oct 2009, 17:09
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It's in Folder Options or the Vista equivalent, under the second tab I believe, checkbox is "Always create thumbnails", unchecking that should just give you an icon for each AVI and it should load that folder correctly.
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13th Oct 2009, 20:56
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Wow, worked wonders. Cheers man
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13th Oct 2009, 21:52
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No problem, Vista seems to really have a hard time doing thumbnailing of lots of images or videos, especially high-res images or high filesize videos. You might try removing any codec packs you may have installed and installing CCCP - it has a built-in thumbnailer that may handle them better if you ever decide you really want those thumbnails.
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"I loved the P182 so much that, when my wife's system was all noisy and needed all sorts of cleaning, I bought her one. Then, when I wanted a cat, I bought a P182. The P182 is not a cat per se, but it's still an excellent buy."
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14th Oct 2009, 06:33
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Quote:
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14th Oct 2009, 14:13
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Ok, the problem is reocurring.
It has solved it somehwat, but now, I can get into to the folder, no problem at all. But if I try to transfer anything to or from the hard drive, it'll do it no problem for a bit then the green progress bar stop and the time goes from "50 seconds remaining" to "43 hours remaining" and makes everything run really slow. What's going on? |
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14th Oct 2009, 14:54
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That I'm not quite sure. Why not open up a command prompt and copy the files over from there?
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14th Oct 2009, 15:15
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I'm an idiot. Forgive my insolensce, how do I do that?
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