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[Sludge]

Hello All,

Excellent forum; it's helped me out tremendously. I've purchased a handful of the DNS-323 units over the past year, and considering their price, they generally work fairly well. That being said, I have a couple of nagging issues that I've been unable to locate definitive answers on:

1. Folders that can not be deleted.

Every once in a while, a folder is created that although I can see, I cannot access or delete. I've tried with a small variety of MS operating systems & file manages with no success. Sometimes, they eventually disappear, but I'm getting an increasing amount 'dead' folders listed.

2. Cannot see or access certain folders.

Initially, I used SyncBack (2brightsparks.com) to transfer a couple of dozen folders to the DNS-323. Most copied correctly and are used daily. However, I (eventually!) noticed that a few folders weren't there. I thought I had missed them and attempted to recopy to absent folders, but received a 'folder already exists' error. So basically, I'm positive there's a folder (or at least directory entry) for:

\\192.168.1.200\Volume_1\1994

But cannot see or manipulate it in anyway. The DNS-323 has no user restrictions or quotas; everything is opened up. I've restored to system defaults following a couple of other posts, with no change. I've also tried a couple of different firmware versions (1.07 and 1.08).

Because of the amount of data, I'd prefer not to format & recopy.

Does anyone have any insight?

3. Power

Power failures are not uncommon where I reside. The fact that there's no 'hard' power switch, in my experience, is a design flaw. For this reason alone I'm considering an alternative. Does anyone have a possible work around solution?

Thanks in advance for everyone's time.

[mig]

3. Power

Power failures are not uncommon where I reside. The fact that there's no 'hard' power switch, in my experience, is a design flaw. For this reason alone I'm considering an alternative. Does anyone have a possible work around solution?

Plug the DNS-323 into a switched power strip.

[Sludge]

mig,

Thanks for the reply, but perhaps I did not make the problem clear.

When the DNS-323 powers down due to a power failure, it does not power itself back up when the power resumes. Short of plugging it into a UPS that can endure the outage (not always an option), is there a setting or mechanism that can power the DNS-323 automatically when power is restored?

[mig]

O.K. you are looking for power resume after UPS shutdown. 

You need to have hardware version C1 and run D-Link fw v1.08b5 (beta)
Take a look at #42 on http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5485.0

Sorry, no experience with this feature, I have hardware A1.

[Sludge]

Thanks for the info.

Unfortunately, like you, I don't have hardware version C1 either. I suppose it's encouraging news for any DNS-323 I may purchase in the future, but it does nothing for the handful of units I currently maintain. I'm assuming this is a hardware limitation and shouldn't hope for a update that effects versions A or B?

Any insight into the hidden yet inaccessible folders?

[marriealen]

Oh i had the same problem,these files become stacked and are due to long paths,use the tool available at http://pathtoodeep.com ,it is a free tool which deletes and also searches such undeleteable files and also assists in installation and sharing of long pathed files

[Wiggs]

For the inaccessible files and folders, you could try fun_plug (http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:fun_plug) which would allow you to telnet/ssh into your DNS-323 and delete/modifiy files and folders manually. 

Regards,

Wiggs