Comment 2 for bug 1280574

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Jean-Pierre (jean-pierre-andre) wrote :

> Whenever I create or copy files to any of the NTFS partitions from Ubuntu, these files
> get deleted once I login to Windows.

Does this also happen to files on external devices (such as a usb key) ?

> I have been able to find the exact event log concerning this issue in Windows

A file has also probably been created in "Win/System Volume Information/Chkdsk"
(Replace Win by your actual mount point, use quotes or escape the spaces)
which you can determine from its time stamp (02/05/2014 at 20:53:12:946).
Please post it.
Note : this is a UTF16-encoded file, you may have to post it as a binary file.

> I shut down Windows properly and do not hibernate. I have disabled fast startup
> option in Windows, and Fastboot from BIOS.

When you start Ubuntu after having logged off Windows normally, what is the
output of :
sudo head -c 30 'Win/$LogFile' | tail -c 4 | od -t x2
(Replace Win by your actual mount point, keep the quotes or escape the '$')

What does the same command return when you switch to Ubuntu from
Windows through a "restart" instead of "shut down" ?

> I think Ubuntu does something wrong when saving files to NTFS partitions,
> and it is probably a bug in NTFS-3g.

And a possible cause is Microsoft having changed the rules unilaterally.