I've been really enjoying using Mint for a few months, but I'm running into a frustrating problem. Whenever I save files to my external hard drive, they vanish after I disconnect the drive. I'm using a Samsung portable NVME SSD formatted with NTFS. I initially set it up using Samsung Magician on my Windows PC. While the drive is connected, everything looks fine, and I can access my files. But after I disconnect and reconnect it, all my files seem to have disappeared. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
3 Answers
Make sure you're properly unmounting the hard drive before you disconnect it. Windows (and other systems) often recommend safely ejecting USB drives to avoid losing data. This is a common mistake!
Before unplugging the drive, try using the `sync` command in the terminal. This ensures that everything gets properly saved and nothing is still in the buffer after copying.
Consider reformatting the drive to use ext4 instead of NTFS. I've heard that NTFS can cause issues when used with Linux systems. Switching file systems might solve your problem!
Totally agree! NTFS can be pretty problematic on Linux.