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Snapshots not shown on Windows client, but they are physically there
Hi All, ReadyNAS 312 v6.4.1 I have snapshots enabled for many shares and they are taken - so far, so good. But on a windows share, only older snapshots are shown. This is what shows up in...
Logs sent, thanks!
Looks fine.
Could you try disabling snapshot access for the shares then re-enabling it?
Alreday tried this, this made the snapshots disappear and reappear as shown :(
Have you tried using Windows' built-in Previous Versions function?
Not yet ... I even did not know that this was supported :)
ok, it works, but this solution is not that comfortable because it depends on using windows explorer.
I hardly want them show all show up as before.
As I tested using Windows 7, I now tried XP (ugly, I know) which is interesting - you see the difference:
That brought me right to the solution, If i turn on showing hidden/system files in Win7 (as I have in XP) the newer versions also show up. So anything has changed sometime (I believe with a firmware update) that snapshots are marked as hidden now (which makes no sense to me).
Anyway now I know more about this ...
Stefan
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