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   From: java@evij.com.invalid   
      
   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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