Windows 10: Abandoning One Drive -- How Do I Identify a File Solely Present on One Drive?

After a year or so experience with One Drive, its time to say goodbye. I have no need for sharing, and I've always preferred to be in physical possession of my stuff, either on the PC or on some external drives.How do I insure as I go through the process of divorce, I don't lose any folders or files that exist solely on One Drive? Is this even a valid concern?

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Identify Existing USB Thumb Drive's Format

If you want to determine current file system of a thumb drive follow these steps:

Open command prompt or PowerShell as Administrator
type following commands:
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identify your thumb drive and replace number below with the actual thumb drive number:

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From listed partitions identify partition which contains your mp3 files then select it and show details:

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Here in this output take a look at "Type" number and post it here.

Next select volume that contains your mp3 files
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Here you should be able to see file system type on that volume

 

Need solution for automating transferring of files to flash drives

I am wary of jumping straight in at the deep end so I have a couple of questions.

1 How do you know which files to copy to which memory stick? Can you put a list for each one in a text file?
2 Are you free to give each memory stick a specific label so that it can be detected in order to trigger the specific list that you have written for that memory stick?

I do have a batch file procedure for identifying the drive letter currently being used for a given external drive label. So perhaps you could trigger a common batch file that
Step 1 - checks each drive in turn to read its label and then find its current drive letter
Step 2 - for each detected drive, look up the list given in the batch file to identify which [if any] text file to look in to find the files to copy to that memory stick.
Step 3 - copies the files listed in the relevant text file

Denis

 

Identify Existing USB Thumb Drive's Format

Hi:

I have a ScanDisk 32-GB thumb drive that functions in my 2013 Honda Accord for playing MP3 files. I want to determine which type of file system, FAT or NTFS, is used for that particular flash thumb drive.

I also have other, new, 32GB ScanDisk thumb drives, which say that only 28 GB space is available; so I want to do one of the following to a new thumb drive, whichever is needed:

1. Remove the encryption files from the thumb drive to allow full 32 GB available storage space.
2. Format the new 32GB drive with the proper file system, when prompted to select either NTFS or FAT in File Manager.

Thus, my desire to identify which type of file system is presently used on the thumb drive that plays MP3 in my car. Note: that thumb drive also has the (defaulted) ScanDisk's encryption files. If I am not mistaken, reformatting a thumb drive would remove any ScanDisk encryption files. But, I do not know which file system to use for MP3 files.

Thanks for reading this. TIA for suggestions/comments.