Public bug reported:
My setup: 16.04 xenial, Kernel : Linux 4.4.0-67-generic
Problem with a WD elements 10A8, a 1 TB large external hard drive 32fat.
After searching for a duplicate I decided to file this bug report while
realizing a lot of the people reporting on the Bug #1208993 reported by
Merlijn Sebrechts on 2013-08-06 probably had the same issue as me (that
bug report seems to mix two separate issues).
My hard drive was working just fine till two weeks ago, when I started copying
about 10 GB of files on it, when I came back it was 50% and still churning
away, the copying seemed to have trickled to zero. Since then I tried to copy
other files (even relatively small ones 700 MG ones) back and forth from it -
and the slowness was maddening. I repeat the drive was fine, just some weeks
ago, and I don't think it is a nautilus issue from what I understand, although
it seems to affect other people.
Still it is not the freezing while copying bug (mentioned above) or the slowing
down in the bar when reaching 90%, mentioned in other reports. It just is slow
from one end to the other, while I never had problems with it before,
everything got suddenly 10x slower. It is also affecting just this one drive
and it is linked to Linux. I tried other usb sticks and drives and I didn't
have this issue. I also tried copying the same files on Windows and the speed
is just fine. So I am not talking about several files or big files, just normal
ones seem to be a problem. Since then the drive is nearly unusable, as I am
having all this data stored but it is just nerve wrecking to try and copy them
even one by one.
Any help or any advice is highly appreciated or redirect to other
[solved] or related known issues.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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very slow file copying in Ubuntu 16.04 to and from external hard drive
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