I’m not 100 % on this, but I don’t thing the drive is FAT32 formatted. I’m not using windows that much so except for the “properties” option from right-click I don’t know how to check. But there is a really simple way to check, try uploading a file larger than 4 GB onto the drive. If the drive complains, its most likely FAT formatted.
Since it’s asking about properties you might need to check the file ownership and properties using some sort of ssh access tool (PuTTy or something equal to that).
The My Book World (Blue Rings) or (White Light) are linux-based and formatted for a linux OS. The My Book World (Blue Rings) does not support NTFS USB HDDs except in read-only mode; it works fine with fat32-formatted USB HDDs however.
What software are you using to backup to your My Book World? Which My Book World is it? If you aren’t sure, provide the model number please.
Lara_F, in answer to your question I have the white light version, 2GB. I am actually manually backing files up over the network by copying and pasting.
Having looked into the warning message, it’s as if it’s saying certain properties from the file system wont be copied as the source and destination formats vary. Obviously my concern is about losing data, not the file itself, but something associated with it?
If you format your drive to NTFS it will completely wipe out the operating system and will no longer be a network drive. Our network drives must be formatted for linux, since they are running linux.
Are you connecting to the drive using SMB (standard windows protocol) or NFS? I have never seen an error like the one you are indicating unless the person was transferring through SSH/linux commands.
Are you copying to a folder that has a username/password associated with it? What operating system is on your PC?
Try copying contents withing the my documents for a particualr user not the whole my documents folder but contents within that folder and see if you get the same message. There may be some hidden files that are conflicting.