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MarkCoburn
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May 30, 2015

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...
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MarkCoburn
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May 31, 2015
StephenB wrote:
vandermerwe wrote:
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.
Correct. As far as the NAS is concerned, the share is the [shared] folder. Delete it, and its gone. Mark, you must have misread my post.


I'm double dumb, I misread your post.

Well, I was afraid that I did that. Seemed too coincidental.

Why can't there be an "undelete"?

So, just email Netgear support?

Thanks

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