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kweebxd

kweebxd

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So today i wnet to my friend and got my hdd with me so. He can copy the games into from his 0c into mine
We did
He copied about 500g of games bf1 bf5 rdr2 cod warzone
The storage went from 2tbs to 1.4g

I just plugged my hdd into my pc
And nothing of the files i copied today is here
And the total storage is still about 2tb
It was a brand new hdd
 
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you can certainly do that but you would need to go to your friend's place again.
do you have two hard drives ? you could format a "travel" hard drive in exFAT , this file system doesn't have permissions

can you try again to go to drive H -> right click properties -> security and check "replace all child permisssions" ? ownership change is a bit tedious on windows

edit : if it doesn't work, do it with command line (black cmd window) :
takeown /f H:\* /R

then
icacls H:\* /setowner pc /T /C /L /Q

then
icacls H:\* /grant pc:MA
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USAFRet said:
Install and run either WinDirStat, or WizTree.

Run as Administrator, selecting only the drive in question.
Post a screencap here.

Also, a screencap of your Disk Management window
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USAFRet said:
Install and run either WinDirStat, or WizTree.

Run as Administrator, selecting only the drive in question.
Post a screencap here.

Also, a screencap of your Disk Management window
Click to expand...
i just restarted my pc now the partetion ihas decreased space but the files are still not showing and how can i post the pictures?
 
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your picture of file explorer show usage, but you can't actually see the files.

by any chance, did you friend used a tool called robocopy ? if so, there a known bug that render destination files hidden.

to show them, open a terminal (search -> cmd -> right click on the black icon on the bottom bar -> run as administrator)

then type this :
ATTRIB -R -S H: /S /D
edit : try also :
attrib -h -s -a H: /S /D

this command means : "show me everything stored in H: drive , remove attributes"

then close file explorer and open it again
 
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kweebxd said:
steam library was copied way before
and i copied the todays files in the H drive
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That leads to you just copying shortcuts.
No actual "games".
 
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neojack said:
your picture of file explorer show usage, but you can't actually see the files.

by any chance, did you friend used a tool called robocopy ? if so, there a known bug that render destination files hidden.

to show them, open a terminal (search -> cmd -> right click on the black icon on the bottom bar -> run as administrator)

then type this :
ATTRIB -R -S H: /S /D

this command means : "show me everything stored in H: drive"

then close file explorer and open it again
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He didnt use any software
Just straight up copy from his m. 2 and psted it into my hdd
 
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ok your files are there, but you don't have acces to them because of NTFS permissions

right click on your drive -> properties -> security -> advanced
on the top you see owner, click modify and type your windows username (to know your username, open a cmd window, and type "whoami")

then in the middle, click add, add you username too , select "full control", clic ok (it will work for a while then return to the former menu)

click the checkbox on the bottom "replace child permissions"

that should run for a few minutes and you will get access to the files
 
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neojack said:
ok your files are there, but you don't have acces to them because of NTFS permissions

right click on your drive -> properties -> security -> advanced
on the top you see owner, click modify and type your windows username (to know your username, open a cmd window, and type "whoami")

then in the middle, click add, add you username too and click the checkbox on the bottom "replace child permissions"

that should run for a few minutes and you will get access to the files
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after i right click on h drive then protperties then security i git this window
bare with me im very new
to pc stuff http://www.mediafire.com/view/4po61js2sxlt8k3/Desktop_Screenshot_2020.10.17_-_02.05.25.32.png/file
 
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