Posted November 1, 200816 yr This question is prompted by two events that I have encountered recently. The first was when I was trying to back up my email from a (Vista Home Premium) Dell Laptop (XPS 1530 (NTFS file system) to a USB-2 attached harddrive (FAT32). I was just trying to do a drag/drop (copy) from a Windows Mail Store to the (FAT32) USB-2 attached harddrive. The total data size was around 500MB. After a couple of minutes the data transfer rate dropped from over 1MB/sec to less than 10% of that and the estimated transfer time ended up at over 24 hours. More recently I wanted to make a local copy of my Windows Live Mail Store (have migrated from Windows Mail) by just doing a drag/drop (copy) to my desktop. I noticed that this process started with a transfer rate of around 5MB/sec and by the end this had dropped to a couple hundred KB/sec. I'm curious as to what is happening here. Windows Mail and Live Mail Stores both have HUGE numbers of folders, but this behavior seemed odd to me. In particular I would really like to be able to just copy my Mail Store to a USB-2 attached harddrive. Any thoughts or info - thanks. dave
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