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ReadyNAS 422 Missing copied folders from Share
I'm a little new-ish at the NAS system but had my old hard drive degrade out on me and had to replace it. I took the long route by copying everything over to a backup drive, then installed the new WD...
Kenflynn81 wrote:
When I went to transfer to the new HD I did not recreate new share fodlers on the system. I used Windows Map Network Drive to show it was a Z Drive to access the HD from windows and copied/pasted that way.
That is the problem. A share is different from a windows folder you create directly in /data in a number of ways.
Unfortunately the only way to fix it is to delete all the data, create shares, and then copy the data into the shares.
Is there only one disk installed in the system?
Did you create the shares in the web admin ui before you copied files? Alternatively did you copy the files to existing (default shares)? If not, where did you put them?
When I went to transfer to the new HD I did not recreate new share fodlers on the system. I used Windows Map Network Drive to show it was a Z Drive to access the HD from windows and copied/pasted that way.
It shows the data on the HD however it shows on the cloud as Snapshot instead of data for some reason.
I'll attach a photo of what I'm meaning
one is showing the Coud data
2nd is windows dat screen showing the data is there.Windows dataCloud photo
Kenflynn81 wrote:
When I went to transfer to the new HD I did not recreate new share fodlers on the system. I used Windows Map Network Drive to show it was a Z Drive to access the HD from windows and copied/pasted that way.
That is the problem. A share is different from a windows folder you create directly in /data in a number of ways.
Unfortunately the only way to fix it is to delete all the data, create shares, and then copy the data into the shares.
I will start doing that now. Thank you for the help. I wished I'd thought of doing that before transfering all the data on the hard drive, took nearly a day to get everything moved over. BUT at least I'll be able to get it working again.
thank you again StephenB
Kenneth Flynn
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