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Win XP: "refers to a location that is unavailable"

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LxMxFxD4

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Strangest thing,

I have a winxp machine with a hard drive that has a bunch of shared files over the network. Today I went to go look at one of the directories and got this error:

"C:\local\path\to\directory" refers to a location that is unavailable.

I ran a checkdisk with auto recovery of bad errors and it came back all clean (I have the log if you need it posted).

I tried accessing it in save mode with no results. And I'm right now doing a system restore from safe mode but I doubt that will fix it.

The drive was in need of defragmenting but that has also already been done.

Strangest thing as well: When I go right click on one of the directories that is "unavailable" the properties contain NO attributes.. that is.. no creator/owner, etc.

God I hope these aren't lost as the error has been replicated to all my backups as well.

Any other solutions?
 
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Need for Disk Defrag is Not a reason for Network drive to be available.

If the Drive is normally available on the computer that it is installed on it is a network sharing problem.

Try to switch Off the sharing, reboot every thing on the network and redo the sharing.



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JackMDS said:
Need for Disk Defrag is Not a reason for Network drive to be available.

If the Drive is normally available on the computer that it is installed on it is a network sharing problem.

Try to switch Off the sharing, reboot every thing on the network and redo the sharing.



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I appreciate your help but you didn't really read my post.

If im in safe mode that means file sharing is off - so that doesn't solve it.

This isn't a network sharing problem, its a local computer problem. As in, I can't access the directories when at the machine in windows explorer.. which means also, obviously, it can't be accessed over the network either.
 
UPDATE:

The person who created the directories in this file share has alerted me that the directories were created using a MAC running Snow Leopard (10.6 I think). Not sure if that changes anything.. But figured I'd update this.

Unfortunately this person has since switched back to Leopart (10.5?) and can't test with snow leopard.

Curious question then.. would snow leopard be able to MAKE directories in windows that windows wouldn't be able to read from? She connects to the machine with a local user account over the network.
 
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