Windows 10: Applying metadata to files on USB drives is very slow

I have two USB drives connected to my ACER laptop :

1) a USB 3.0 connected 4 TB LaCie, NTFS formatted

2) a network connected 5 TB Seagate Personal Cloud, NTFS formatted


I use Windows Explorer, right-click any multimedia file (.mp3, .mp4, .avi, .wmv....), select Properties > Details tab and fill-out some of the metadata : Rating, Title, Comments, Tags, Genre, Directors, Composers, Conductors...







On either USB drive, after clicking the Ok button, it takes several minutes to complete and for the dialog boxes to close.

The time it takes is vaguely a linear function of the file size :

Multimedia file size Time to perform "Applying properties"
0,76 GB 2 min 40"
1,6 GB 6 min 20"
3,1 GB 11 min 50"

In Event Viewer > System, I did not find any recent entry at the moment I performed the operation.


On my internal SATA disk, I can edit the metadata properties of the same file instantly.


Thank you ,


Philip

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