Anybody know of a utility (preferably portable, but not necessarily) that will force windows to write files it has cached? I know write caching will hold crap in memory so it doesn't have to do as many writes, but when it's time to remove your USB drive, that becomes a pain in the butt because Windows has stuff waiting to be written when IT feels like it wants to.
Basically, I want something that will dump the cache contents to disk. This is especially a pain to me because I use a 120 gig laptop drive for my USB drive, so there's lots of read/write caching.
P.S.-- fear opening PortableThunderbird with 500 megs of email files over USB 1.1
Write caching utility?
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Andrew Lee
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Try Sync from SysInternals.
Actually, I remember write-caching is turned off by default for removable drives unless you format it to NTFS (almost all are FAT32-formatted by default).
Actually, I remember write-caching is turned off by default for removable drives unless you format it to NTFS (almost all are FAT32-formatted by default).
