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Hi ive noticed that when i download lets just say windows 8.1 64 bit and then the next day download it again it re downloads every file saying the remote file is newer than the one stored on my usb stick. Surely it should just check to see if its there and if not download it and skip any other file. It makes downloading updates very long winded. It does this for all versions of windows and office, and as office is a 4 gig download this is very annoying. I some times run the update on a different computer but the result is the same no matter what files are there it re downloads them all ......

So you use WSUSOU directly on the USB drive? The flash USB might be formatted with the FAT32 filesystem. FAT32 uses very imprecise timestamps (two-seconds-granularity). Thus the 'file is newer/not newer' check is bound to fail.

You might get better results with the flash USB formatted to NTFS or exFAT.

yeah will do looks like i should keep it on my hard drive and use the copy to directory and point it at usb drive. for now though ill try ntfs...