USB Stick Ident Inconsistency [#19601]

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MattTown
Posts: 251
Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:09 pm
Location: Australia

USB Stick Ident Inconsistency [#19601]

Post by MattTown »

When I plug a USB stick into my MM5 PC, the drive letter that is reported in Devices&Services (I:\ , being capital "i") is different from the drive letter reported in Win10 File Explorer and MM5 Folders (H:\). This is entirely repeatable and doesn't stop syncing from working properly; reporting a different drive letter just makes MM5 look bad.

My system has the following drive usage:
C: Win installation
D: Music partition
E: DVD drive
F: Wave files partition
G: External USB backup drive
H: External USB data stick sync target
MM 2024.3003 (WEF 9 Mar 2024, Portable Mode), Gold lifetime license, user since 2009.
Currently 25K files. Library and music files are on a separate partition (E:\) on external USB drive.
Windows Surface Book (Original), i5, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD.
Win10 Home 64 bit, update: 22H2 19045.3570
MMA 2.0.0.1103, Android 13 on Nokia XR20, music files on SD card.
Ludek
Posts: 4945
Joined: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:00 am

Re: USB Stick Ident Inconsistency

Post by Ludek »

Hi Matt,
this sounds that you originally connected the memory stick under the different drive letter (I:\) and there wasn't any volume label/name so it used 'I:\' as the default name for the device. Now it is connected as (H:\) so it looks confusing.

Tracking as https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=19601

Feel free to rename the device name to prevent from the confusion until #19601 is fixed
MattTown
Posts: 251
Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:09 pm
Location: Australia

Re: USB Stick Ident Inconsistency [#19601]

Post by MattTown »

Thanks Ludek,
Yes when I plugged in a fresh USB stick it registered in both Win and MM5 as H: drive so no inconsistency there, and yes the USB drive had previously been connected to MM, though a long time ago.
Thanks for the hint about naming the USB drive before introducing it to MM.
Cheers
Matt
MM 2024.3003 (WEF 9 Mar 2024, Portable Mode), Gold lifetime license, user since 2009.
Currently 25K files. Library and music files are on a separate partition (E:\) on external USB drive.
Windows Surface Book (Original), i5, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD.
Win10 Home 64 bit, update: 22H2 19045.3570
MMA 2.0.0.1103, Android 13 on Nokia XR20, music files on SD card.
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