Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
     SAVING FILES AND FOLDERS TO AN EXTERNAL DEVICE.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     VISIBILITY AT THE COMMAND LINE WAS INTERMITTENT DURING THE FIRST 24 HOURS, AND FILES/FOLDERS WERE ALWAYS INVISIBLE DURING THE FIRST 24 HOURS.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
     GREATLY SLOWED DOWN MY ABILITY TO USE MY COMPUTER SINCE I HAD TO SAVE MY FILES TO THE DESKTOP, WAIT 24 HOURS, AND THEN MOVE THEM TO THE EXTERNAL DEVICE.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
     VISIBILITY SHOULD BE INSTANTANEOUS ONCE A FILE/FOLDER IS SAVED TO AN EXTERNAL DEVICE.

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Thank you for reporting an issue. Unfortunately it does not contain
enough detail for it to be tracked as a bug. Please see https://www.debian.org/support
for support venues. Interacting with people there will likely yield
a better result.

Best,
Chris

There isn't anywhere near enough information in this bug report for
anybody to be able to investigate this. It's also nothing to do with
the Debian installer, nor the bugs.debian.org package.

Closing - feel free to reopen if you have more useful information,
including stuff the template asked for:

 * what version of Debian
 * what *exactly* you did
 * what happened
 * what desktop you're using (etc.)

Hello Steve:

I believe the problem is with the Debian OS.  Others have reported not
having this problem if they ran Cinnamon. Additionally other distros
with Cinnamon don't report this problem.  If it was only Cinnamon then
there wouldn't be a problem at the command line so I conclude there is
something wrong with the OS.

I can't tell you what packages are defective.  Has anyone investigated
to see if there is an issue with the display manager?

Urk