It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thomasabowden on 2025-02-24 14:48:52.

I have a Western Digital My Passport 264F external hard drive on a Windows 11 PC. I use it as my catchall for downloads. Many times each day, I call up the drive on Windows file explorer, to access something I've recently downloaded. The maddening thing is that it takes several seconds to present me with a directory of all my files. What comes up instantly is the file tree as it existed when I installed the drive many months ago. Then it takes several seconds to update, so that I can see my recent files. Is there a cure for this?

I know this is the definition of a first world problem, and I apologize if DataHoarder isn't the place for this post, but this sub came up often when searching on WD drives.