I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried turning off thumbnails? In my experience when it slows down on large directories like that it's either trying to generate thumbnails or index a bunch of new files (which is also a possibility in your use case)

[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

A great thought on the thumbnails, but the behavior exhibits even when using command-line tools.

Indexing is off for the entire drive, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of mess that would make if it was on.