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Not picking up hard drive after adding new files

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Not picking up hard drive after adding new files

I have movies on an external hard drive, which works perfectly.  Whenever I add files on my laptop, though, and I plug the hard drive back into the device, it doesn't pick it up.  Then all of a sudden, with dumb luck (as I still have no idea how to get it to do it!), it picks up the hard drive again (sometimes only days later).  Please assist!

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On 3/17/2018 at 4:08 AM, Blondie1976 said:

Not picking up hard drive after adding new files

I have movies on an external hard drive, which works perfectly.  Whenever I add files on my laptop, though, and I plug the hard drive back into the device, it doesn't pick it up.  Then all of a sudden, with dumb luck (as I still have no idea how to get it to do it!), it picks up the hard drive again (sometimes only days later).  Please assist!

Are you powering down your unit before unplugging and plugging the drive back in?

What format is the drive set to?

Is it just movie files, or are there thousands of tiny other program files that the system may need to scan through each time?

Also, what size drive is this?

 

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