What filesystemsare folks using on A1

[PulsatingQuasar]

Then you have formatted your partitions with the wrong version of FFS. In MediaToolBox, for a partition, select "Select filesystem/Edit Details"

You then probably have selected International which is DOS\03. You should select Long Filenames which is DOS\07.

Don't forget that you'll loose the data on your partitions and have reformat if you do change the mode FFS is working in.

[PulsatingQuasar]

There is a cache plugin in the Tools directory which makes the transfers go faster.

Then there is another command( I have forgotten it right now) which makes FFS2 behave like FFS1 which results in more speed.

The standard operatingmode of FFS2 is paranoid. It will constantly write the cache to disk so the filesystem won't get corrupted and you will loose data when the power fails.

I'm told that is one of the big differences with an OS like Windows. That OS doesn't flush the cache to disk untill you choose to shutdown the system and thats why a disk validation allways has to be done to make shure everything went fine when the system came down.