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wudata_03.xyz (overwrite)

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DatHak512

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I run FAH off of a USB drive, so that i can run it on the campus machines when i use them (that is, until i b0rg them!). I run the text-only client, and i quit it using [ctrl]+[c] when i'm done. Currently it's about 51% through a 600 pointer. Every so often, probably like every 8-10 times i start the FAH client, i get:

- Writing "work/wudata_03.key": (overwrite) successful.
- Writing "work/wudata_03.xyz": (overwrite) successful.
- Writing "work/wudata_03.prm": (overwrite) successful.
- Writing "work/wudata_03.key": (append) successful.


and the overwriting of the .xyz file takes a REALLY long time. This time, it took 58 minutes for the successful to appear, and the USB drive's light was just flickering on and off. Its a USB 2.0 drive, so i wouldn't think it would take that long to do its thing... but apparently so. Does anyone know what the frick it's doing for so long? Is it some kind of defragmentation?

I'm pretty sure i get all of those messages every time i start FAH, but it's only every so often that the .xyz overwrite will take a long time. Sometimes it take about a minutes, sometimes five, and this time it took 58 minutes... So does anyone know what's goin' on? :confused:
 
I'm pretty sure that those files are sort of like "placeholders" as to where the unit is when you quit, and that it stores what was in memory when you quit, so the size varies. And since it placeholds every once in a while, when you start up it has to load the old one and write a current one, which on a big WU could be a solid gig of data over USB2.0, which is still quite a bit. I may very well be wrong, but it's possible
 
You've checked the obvious, like that it is a USB 2.0 port on the computer?
 
Not sure what it means, but I've seen it beofre on normal (IDE hard disk) systems. Freaks me out when I see it big time but all seems to be ok.
 
Hito Bahadur said:
You've checked the obvious, like that it is a USB 2.0 port on the computer?
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Yeah, it was a USB 2.0 drive on a USB 2.0 connection. Forgot to mention that ;).
 
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