8TB My Book exFAT lost folder

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#1

Similar to many here.

I robocopied 2TB to a folder on a new My Book, on restart the folder is gone but Properties shows 2TB space used.

I copied another 1TB to another folder today and that is still showing after a restart (for now).

Can I get to the lost folder? Is this going to continue? Is exFAT the primary culprit? Are we trapped in a standards war that will stop me having one drive talk to Windows and MAC?

Thanks.

Win 10 Pro 64bit.

#2

sounds like Robocopy is the culprit

After Robocopy, the copied Directory and Files are not visible on the destination Drive - Stack Overflow.

#3

Thank you. I was about to format to ntfs but am now slowly changing those file attributes now.

I had to

  • Properties - untick Read Only and recurse subfolders
  • attrib -H -S :<folder> /S /D in command line