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Re: rsync Question

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On 2025-10-21 20:52, Dan Purgert wrote:
>
> Realistically though, as I understand your actual situation, this series
> of commands is closer to what happened, right?

Things were rather more complicated than that ...

As I have posted a number of times in the past, I have been scanning 
many documents from two branches of my family prior to placing them in 
one of Scotland's public document archives.  This work is nearing 
completion of its third stage, there will be one more stage before it is 
complete.

Because the current stage is near completion, I wanted to reclaim disk 
space on my Windows PC, some of which is taken up by interim 
post-processing files deleted into the RecycleBin, but did not want to 
lose them entirely just yet by emptying the bin.

I could just have dragged them out of the bin onto a server folder, but 
that way I'd have lost the directory structure they were originally part 
of, whereas I wanted to recreate the files in their original place in 
the directory tree, but not have them muddled up with the final versions 
on the data drive, D:, and also, if there were more than one version of 
a particular file to be restored, restoring them rather than dragging 
and dropping them would number extra versions appropriately.

So I gave the data drive a new drive letter and rebooted, then in a 
Command console typed ...

	NET USE D: \\Server\Share\Path

... and restored all the files from the RecycleBin.  Then I did ...

	NET USE D: /D

... and restored the data drive to being D:, and rebooted again.

Trouble was, I'd unwittingly left the last directory off the path I gave 
to the above command, thus giving myself a new problem which was the 
subject of this thread.  However, I've solved it now, in a similar 
manner to that suggested previously.

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