From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   Paul Emmons wrote:   
      
   > Yesterday I experienced many troubling delays in directory queries of an   
   > external drive, both on the command line and in the windows that came up   
   > with various programs allowing the selection of a file.  In the latter   
   > case, I would usually see merely a cursor, with the hourglass flashing   
   > briefly every few seconds.  The list of files might require thirty seconds   
   > to appear.  Windows task manager showed low CPU use, and there was no heavy   
   > reading or writing on the drive in question (or any others).  I was   
   > baffled: was the drive failing? (Everything else seemed fine).  Was I hit   
   > by a virus?   
   >   
   > Sometimes receiving and showing keyboard input in the command-prompt window   
   > was also  disturbingly sluggish.   
   >   
   > Today everything is, happily, back to normal.  But I am still puzzled.   
   > Because I am backing up another large external drive, I'd expect   
   > performance to be worse rather than better, but these requests are nice and   
   > snappy as usual.   
   >   
   > Does anyone have suggestions as to what might have been happening   
   > yesterday?   
      
   Was there a reboot between yesterday and today?   
      
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