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[Starver]

I've never known (without intentional 'password protection', which is usually completely separate from Windows' own security) everyday USB storage to carry over access-control between machines.

I'd have tried several other things, before automatic disk repair, because it's as likely to have made it "work" for the new machine (but everything looks corrupted), whilst breaking whatever effortless access the original machine had.

Always possible, as I've had happen to me more times than I care to count, that the USB drive fails (sometimes half fails) in such a way that it only reports a fraction of the original available space. If your file (and, most importantly, the FAT/whatever index) is still in the good bit, you're ok (for the moment). But if data and/or allocation info are on the dead 'memory' then it's probably a loss. This is between one device and itself. (The "cannot read" might have cropped up on a different machine, but I'll have taken it back to the original one that was ok with it before, to make sure I'm not trying to fead an ext3-formatted drive on my Win2K machine, for example.)

There are other possible glitches, but I think (by 'repairing' it) you probably somewhat added to the original issue. From long experience, though of course that's with more than a few assumptions as I'm not there to look over your shoulder and be sure(/shown to be wrong) what exact 'fixing' process you went through.

Also what you did to the USB originally. You've generally either to administratively 'adopt' the media into your UAC/whatever that a given host machine (or network) uses, or run the utility that SanDisk/etc leaves as the initial contents of your drive. And, unless you're really sure that you're happy for everything to be accessible only under particular circumstances, I'd suggest not bother with either, don't hold anything on there for longer than you might want to risk its loss[1]. You can always individually protect particular files, in other ways. It might not be globally held under a 128bit-AES 'virtual partition', but that's mostly just a gimmick that (when any corruption occurs) can result in the inability to access absolutely everything.


(There's a Life Advice subforum Generic Computer Help thread, or very similarly named, which this particular cry for help might have fitted into, and might get more help than just this broad assumption of mine. Probably better help,foo. Though of course it's also probably a WTF moment...)

[1] Both loss to you, assuming there aren't still copies on your main system(s), and being lost as in 'found by someone else'.

[Mathel]

To be clear, this is a USB HDD drive, not a Flash drive.

And just adding privileges to myself using the icacls command did fix most of the issue. I lost 1 of the files I was trying to transfer, but it was not a file I critically needed.

[Starver]

To be clear, this is a USB HDD drive, not a Flash drive.

And just adding privileges to myself using the icacls command did fix most of the issue. I lost 1 of the files I was trying to transfer, but it was not a file I critically needed.

I wasn't sure, the terms used often being interchangably used, so I tried to cover both bases (but USB flash/thumb/ram-drives are the ones I've had most failures with, so that came up more prominantly).

Still haven't ever had to deal with machines accessing USB-HDDs not liking the saved credentials of files written by other machines, and I've done that between machines as wide apart as Win2K and Win11 (with no shared usernames, or even network). The biggest problem is when I needed to get large drives with LFS (exFAT?) recognised by 'older systems'. Got it working for as far back as XP (which might have had native 2/4Gb FS, but didn't originally understand the kind used by the multi-terrabyte extHDD), but didn't bother to sort out the 2K (as the HDD permanently in that isn't even big enough to ever be given a 2Gb file!)...

I suppose if you might have used Win10's own Partition Manager to essentially rewrite the external drive (you got a USB caddy and put your own freshly bought HDD in it?), it might have been possible to have accidentally selected a protected partition format rather than an open one.

Other than that, it was perhaps more a glitch (maybe unplugging a delay-written drive before it was unloaded and made safe to do so?) that had nothing much to do with accounts. But I'm still only theorising, from what I've had most experience with. If you've sorted it, what I'm imagining doesn't matter too much.

[Enemy post]

Hypernet Explorer looks like it's going to be something special, or at least cause SsethTzeentach to transcend this mortal plane.

[nenjin]

Hypernet Explorer looks like it's going to be something special, or at least cause SsethTzeentach to transcend this mortal plane.

Hey hey people INTENSIFYING.

[Frumple]

Kinda' neat if it turns out to actually, like, exist.

... whoever the dev is seems to have at least some awareness of DF lore, too, which is somehow remarkably unsurprising. Responded to an urist asking if they were sober with a comment about plump helmet wine.

"Every light in the sky is your enemy" is a damn good line, in any case.

[Sirus]

That's oddly like a a line I heard in an anime, not quite but very similar.

So, all the lights in the heavens are our enemy, eh?

[heydude6]

Hypernet Explorer looks like it's going to be something special, or at least cause SsethTzeentach to transcend this mortal plane.

I'm looking at this trailer and thinking to myself "There's no way this game can be real".

It will be interesting to see if I am proven wrong.

[Akura]

There's an itch.io page for it, so it might be real?

[Frumple]

Eh, there's an itch page for a lot of stuff, including things that are barely (or completely non)functioning. Itch doesn't exactly do a lot of quality control, ha. That, on its own, isn't particularly indicative of much of anything.

It'll be real when there's an actual executable available that does at least part of what the trailer's saying it does, heh.

[heydude6]

There's an itch.io page for it, so it might be real?

You misunderstand me. I have no doubt that the devs are working on a game that they are trying to advertise with this trailer, I'm just not so sure how representative the marketing is going to be of the actual product being sold.

I'm seeing at least 4 different art styles (as if they were 4 separate products rather than a single unified one), and I have no idea how the solar system stuff is supposed to integrate with the rest of the gameplay. What's being presented here simply seems to be too big for what a small team can achieve (even if they are ignoring polish).

Currently, I'm predicting a No Man's Sky style launch where the product that releases is missing significant features that were in the trailers. The most cynical possibility is that it's a bait and switch like you see in mobile game ads.

Regardless, I'm curious to see exactly how this is going to turn out.

[ArchAIngel]

The poster of the video in the comments says he paid Gabe the 100$ to post the game on Steam, so we'll be seeing the answer in a few days.


It looks like one hell of a drug trip, any way you go.

[Kagus]

Eh. Looking at that, I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if it did wind up with set dressing making all of those claims be technically correct.

I just don't expect any single one of them to be developed to a degree that's compelling to interact with.

[EuchreJack]

In Microsoft's continuing mission to gaslight it's users, it deleted the update history showing its complete and utter failure to successfully update Windows 11 for the past three months.  It seems to have done a successful update, and it seems to be updating now...but you just can't trust Windows 11.
Eh, at least it's being less obnoxious about the whole thing...

[Frumple]

I'm seeing at least 4 different art styles

For what it's worth, there's a fairly noticeable strain of indie game where that's just kind of the design standard? There's more than one or two loitering around itch, and the kludge-y look is very intentional, not just the results of smooshing several things together. It's probably the least unusual/doubt inducing part of the trailer, heh.