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Volume Management

This chapter explains volume eligibility, identity matching for selected drives, and ignore/eject behavior.

A volume is considered eligible when it matches removable/ejectable/local criteria and is not explicitly excluded.

Always excluded:

  • virtual drives,
  • ignored volumes,
  • startup/system volume.

When you choose a specific drive, matching priority is:

  1. Volume UUID
  2. Display name
  3. Security-scoped bookmark fallback
  • Ignored volumes: explicitly skipped during transfer runs.
  • Hidden volumes: hidden in settings UI but not a transfer-skip flag by itself.
  • Eject action runs per detected removable drive.
  • Failures are collected and shown after attempts complete.
  • Eject is blocked while transferring.
  • Use ignored volumes for always-on exclusions (backup disks, archive media).
  • Keep selected-drive rules for stable, repeatable ingest workflows.

What if metadata can’t be read for a volume?

Section titled “What if metadata can’t be read for a volume?”

Fallback behavior treats the volume as eligible instead of silently excluding it.

If the chosen drive is not mounted, the run summary reports the missing mount state.

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