Can't access files chunked by CloudDrive

[markboynz]

This is almost certainly my own error, and part of the problem may be that I can't find the exact words to describe the problem.

I have gradually been moving some local storage into the CloudDrive framework, because it's on a second networked machine, and I wanted to use DrivePool.

I run 3 different DrivePools, and it's taken me a bit of organising and reorganising to get the right drives in the right pool. I think that's where things may have gone wrong.

Situation:

I have a physical HDD, mounted on its host machine as W:\.

On my CloudDrive host machine, I have created a 4TB File Share Cloud Drive on the network share of that drive, named Cloud-SS-W. I have mounted that drive locally as C:\MountCloudW, so I can browse to it.

CloudDrive says that Cloud-SS-W has 3.15TB 'Cloud used'. This makes sense to me, given the data that I believed was on it.

When I browse to W:\ in the filesystem of the drive's host machine, it has 3.15TB of files in a StableBit Cloud Share Data folder.

When I browse to C:\MountCloudW in the filesystem of the CloudDrive host machine, it says it has 4TB free, and no files beyond the Recycle Bin and System Volume Information system folders.

How do I recover the files that have been chunked by CloudDrive, and are sitting in the Cloud Share Data folder? The attachment and metadata files are still there too, along with 32999 100MB part1-chunk-###.dat files

[Shane]

That description looks a bit confusing?

Checking if I'm understanding this:

• you have two machines, I'll call them host1 and host2
• host1 has a 4TB physical drive, mounted as drive "W" and shared as "\\host1\something"
• host1's drive (and thus share) contains a CloudDrive data folder (that I'm guessing was created at some point in the past, since you mention "given the data that I believed was on it"?)
• host2 has CloudDrive installed, you've connected to "\\host1\something" via the File Share provider and you're trying to use it to get access to the content stored in the above folder?

If so:

• you should be using the Attach function in host2's CloudDrive (this is to access an existing data folder on the connected provider and mount the resulting the virtual drive), not the Create function (this is to create a new data folder on the connected provider and mount the resulting virtual drive)
• if the data folder was originally created via a provider other than the File Share provider you will need to convert the folder first (via the command-line utility CloudDrive.Convert.exe) and I strongly recommend backing up the data folder before conversion if it contains any irreplaceable data.