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MarkCoburn
May 30, 2015Aspirant
Accidently deleted share, lost data #25218436
New forum user, have had RedyNAS Duo since 2009. One day my entire "photos" folder was not to be found. I may have accidently deleted it. What I did was delete the "Share" of that folder. I wa...
vandermerwe
May 30, 2015Master
MarkCoburn wrote:
So deleting the share didn't cause the problem. I don't know if that is better or worse. I guess I'm glad that I'm not stupid on that count.
Well, deleting the share has caused the problem.
A share is essentially an area (folder) of the nas into which you place data and over which you have some control (access permissions for example). If you delete the share then everything in it is gone, as StephenB has said.
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