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Author Topic: Missing files and folders  (Read 4114 times)

Georgio

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Missing files and folders
« on: January 06, 2010, 01:01:20 PM »
Hello,

All of a sudden some files and folders went missing from one of my drives. When I try to create a new folder with the same name as the missing one, I get an error saying that this name is already taken. The free disk space hasn't changed, it looks like the files are still there, only have become invisible. I am running on the latest firmware, 2 1TB drives in standard mode. I have also tried the new disk scan option and it didn't find any errors.

I would greatly appreciate your suggestions on how to get the files back or at least how to get rid of them completely without having to reformat the drive.
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Georgio

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Re: Missing files and folders
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2010, 02:50:56 AM »
If I take that drive out, connect directly to a linux PC and run e2fsck, will it repair the file system?
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Missing files and folders
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2010, 05:39:09 AM »
Well, it would certainly give you more options to attempt to recover the data.
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Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.

Georgio

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Re: Missing files and folders
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2010, 02:44:42 AM »
Here's an update, if anyone's interested. All missing files and folders are perfectly visible under ubuntu. I ran e2fsck and it found and corrected quite a few errors. Will put the drive back into nas this evening, hopefully no data will be missing.
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Missing files and folders
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2010, 05:29:40 AM »
Nice to hear a success story. :)
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Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.

Georgio

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Re: Missing files and folders
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2010, 10:43:23 AM »
Everything working fine, hopefully my experience will be helpful for someone.
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