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    Problem with external USB drive (not being recognized by ES)

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      Pupsenlalala
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      Hi everyone.

      I have a quick question. Have been looking for this issue in here and on reddit but no solution so far.

      I have installed Retropie 4.2 (plain) and connected my HDD to it. Everything was working with a previous install of Retropie. Meaning, I already have the retropie-mount folder and everything set up correctly as it was working with 4.2.

      I've updated the script and my setup few weeks ago. Since then, my external HDD wont get recognized by ES.
      Updated today, too with the latest branch, same issue. If I install 4.2 plain from the image, it gets recognized again.

      Have they changed something?
      How can I get this working with the current release?

      Thanks for your help.

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        Pupsenlalala
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        Could it be, that this here what @herb_fargus mentioned, is the culprit?

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          herb_fargus administrators @Pupsenlalala
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          @Pupsenlalala I don't know. its possible but the usbtransferservice is slightly different than the mount service though they do share some code. I haven't tested it as of recent so I am not sure what it would be. It's still a bit of a preliminary feature.

          If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

          Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            Pupsenlalala
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            @herb_fargus Thanks for all your work. Everything was working before I update the script and everything. Maybe you could look into it some times? the USB feature is so great, especially with all the ISOs for the systems.

            Maybe something must have broken the feature. It was working with the plain 4.2 image. (though, I had some issues at the boot up which said that it could not mount my hdd but it still showed all roms and mounted it properly).

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