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diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/removing_files:_When_things_go_wrong.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/removing_files:_When_things_go_wrong.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2d3c0cde0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/walkthrough/removing_files:_When_things_go_wrong.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Before dropping a file, git-annex wants to be able to look at other +remotes, and verify that they still have a file. After all, it could +have been dropped from them too. If the remotes are not mounted/available, +you'll see something like this. + + # git annex drop important_file other.iso + drop important_file (unsafe) + Could only verify the existence of 0 out of 1 necessary copies + Unable to access these remotes: usbdrive + Try making some of these repositories available: + 58d84e8a-d9ae-11df-a1aa-ab9aa8c00826 -- portable USB drive + ca20064c-dbb5-11df-b2fe-002170d25c55 -- backup SATA drive + (Use --force to override this check, or adjust annex.numcopies.) + failed + drop other.iso (unsafe) + Could only verify the existence of 0 out of 1 necessary copies + No other repository is known to contain the file. + (Use --force to override this check, or adjust annex.numcopies.) + failed + +Here you might --force it to drop `important_file` if you [[trust]] your backup. +But `other.iso` looks to have never been copied to anywhere else, so if +it's something you want to hold onto, you'd need to transfer it to +some other repository before dropping it. |