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"Refreshing" the hard drive

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Hi there,

my Xbox is getting old and I'm afraid the data on its 1000 GB harddrive might detoriate. To make sure that doesn't happen, I'm planning to write a Lua script that reads every single file on the disk and writes it back under the same name.

I understand this should be possible to do with Aurora's Lua scripting, right? Anyone else ever did this before? Any tips on how to write that script? I know Lua and don't need basic help with that, I'm just not sure about the Xbox filesystem architecture and if there's any pitfalls that I should be aware of.

Btw, it's Lua. Not LUA. Not an acronym. Lua people are very sensitive about that, lol.

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All right, this is so helpful.

local function refreshFiles(path)
local files = FileSystem.GetFiles(path .. '\\')
for _, file in pairs(files) do
print("refresh file " .. _ .. " " .. file.Name)
end
for _, dir in pairs(FileSystem.GetDirectories(path .. '\\')) do
refreshFiles(path .. '\\' .. dir)
end
end

function main()
for _, drive in pairs(FileSystem.GetDrives()) do
refreshFiles(drive.MountPoint)
end
end

Why does this code print nothing? What are you supposed to pass to FileSystem.GetFiles and FileSystem.GetDirectories, because they always return nil.

Edit: what the fuck, lol. Sorry for the mess with the code, this forum sucks

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Hi there,

  New Xbox gamer here! I am wondering why the hard disk refresh is needed? Does it help in anyway. As far as I know SSD drives loose data if left unpowered for longer times, but why rewrite each file again on a regular disk... maybe you can provide some info that could be useful for us all...

Thanks

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