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Originally Posted by chantw0968
Hello,
Thank you for your response. I just purchased a new computer windows 11, i7-14700 2.10ghz, with 16.0gb of ram installed. Everything runs great. My library was in the wrong place and running off the cloud. I moved it to an external drive and now when I search it freezes, when I sort it freezes. Any command causes it to freeze. Even adding books is slow. The external hard drive that it is on is a Western Digital drive. I have a Seagate 4TB I don't know the formatting sorry not very computer savvy. But, I learn well.  |
Which cloud was the library on?
To find out which File system the drive uses, start File Explorer for "This PC", right click the drive, and select Properties
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Originally Posted by chantw0968
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1; What type of drive do I purchase and move it to so that I don't run into any performance concerns?
2. How big should the storage be on the external drive?
I am so confused about this. Thank you for all of your help.
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Western Digital is fine, I won't use anything else, Seagate's OK too. And as big as you can afford.
If the drive is formatted for NTFS then that's what you want. If its something else then the question is why? Do you plan on attaching the drive to an Apple or Linux system?
I'm thinking it might be better to build a new library from the broken one. To test that proposition, create a new library, add some books to it and try sorting etc. Let us know how it performs. If its OK, then you can build a new library from the 'broken' one. If it's not… ????
BR