Has anyone found a solution on how to stop Seagate Central automatically creating the unwanted and unsolicted 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc folder&#x200B;s? These folders seem to appear when copying folders of photos into the Seagate - Seagate creates and...
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You have to go into the Seagate Central control panel and disable seagate media under the services tab. You may also have to disable DLNA services. My DLNA was already disabled and the folders were still being created, it stopped after I disabled Seagate Media services.
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I'm not sure how to answer your question, you can contact Seagate at their toll free number, I have used Seagate external hard drivesfor years, I am on Windows 7, and it does back up images.
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the only thing I can suggest is to contact Seagate. You can go onto the website and that should answer your questions if not they have a phone number on the web that you can call. Good Luck I hope this can help you
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Actually, a few days ago I called 1-800-SEA-GATE (ONE, EIGHT HUNDRED SEA GATE) and told them my problem and the lady e-mailed me a download link for an actual SeaGate brand of software program called SeaGate Manager. So, now I'm able to use the drive again.
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We have not had that problem. We use this file for important stuff. When we don't need to take action then they go to another file for long term storage. Phil
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I have had the same problem using other devices with Windows 7 (which as a "disk operating system" is a total bust!) Sometimes it helps to plug in a different memory card or USB device before reinserting the first card or device- give that a shot. Windows 7 allows me to eject the drive from Windows Explorer which works better than using the icon in the notification area of the taskbar.
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Me too! I'm not going to seriously consider purchasing anything computer related unless I see the manual that goes with it. Is it (i.e., Canvio) truly plug and play? Can you selectively choose individual files to back up? I'm not at all interested in wasting time and space backing up files that I really don't wish to back up. (I only wish to back up photographs.) Filtering through all the comments, while helpful writ large, takes a lot of time when looking for particular information. A manual please.
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Yes, I have. There is no problem doing this as these drives are generic. However, the company I bought it from sent me one which appeared new (with new packaging) but tested as having thousands of hours of use on it. The test said it was working just fine but it wasn't a new device. I did not pursue the matter further as I did not intend to put this computer into daily use and it was not worth the hassle.
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This is the worst hard drive ever. Don't trust it! I lost all my files even though I had it backed up on two separate externals! Go with a different company. I'm using sea gate now and haven't had a problem.
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Seagate bought controlling interest in LaCie in 2012. Since that time these units use Seagate drives. This can be confirmed on Windows by looking at the drive properties... you can see precisely what drive make and model it is. I show what drive model mine has in my product review. I would consider user ratings of this product above any general bias towards particular makes of drives since it either works or it doesn't as a package.
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It's been a while since I ordered this, but I *think* it was the bare drive. Can't be sure, but on another note, I wouldn't recommend Seagate. I own a computer repair shop, and we see more Seagate drives crash than any of the other brands combined. Go with a Western Digital!
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I've wondered about this too. When I purchased this drive all I wanted was a drive, not a lot of software. And I have no interest in their sharing capability on social media. Maybe someone can answer this, like Seagate themselves.
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Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..
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I do not know. I liked this drive and the way it worked very much. I ended up having to buy a new computer, but this little drive worked very well.
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Unofficially, no start stop button to save cost. I have a start/stop on my 500 GB Seagate. Operation of this item (2TB) is simple, truly plug and play. I had a MyBook that was well documented, but did not operate well. Hope this helps. Mine is a 2 TB; it might vary a bit from the 1TB.
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Bad sectors on drive is main problem...if its a used drive this is common new drives have to be partioned
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For reasons that remain a mystery, I found this happening any time I tried to move large files (in my case, an outlook exchange file was the kicker). I think it is a paging file size issue.I was able to get it on my drive, finally, by using a compression program (WinZip probably, or 7zip maybe) and setting the drive as the destination where it created the zipped file.