On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:31:50 -0700
Russell Senior <[email protected]> dijo:

>How about an "sudo apt update" first?

Omigod, there are updates available. Wait ... you knew that, didn't
you? <Big grin>

So I installed them. They weren't listed in Synaptic, but the little
Ubuntu Update Manager had them, so I let it install them. But when it
finished it wanted me to restart the computer, and that is a problem
for the next three days. That's because I'm still trying to copy all my
work off the problem 128GB exFAT drive. It's finished only 31% of the
13.9GB of files, and my calculations say about three more days, more or
less. I shouldn't have let it go this long, and there is no other
backup.

I'd just kill the thing and finish it after rebooting, but it's not
copying them in alphabetical order. There are about 1400 files and it
would be a major pain to figure out which ones are already copied and
which are not. Maybe I can figure out a command to copy only if the
file is not already on the destination, 'cause otherwise there would be
hundreds of 'skip or overwrite?' error messages.

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