[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnSenxKyE_2Z6Wb-EBMO8FciyRywjx1ZiQ" nickname="Walter" subject="comment 3" date="2014-11-06T22:59:38Z" content=""" This might not be a very helpful comment, but a while ago I also had a situation where files would be dropped from a remote manual repo. Unfortunately, I was not able to get this to happen reliably, but from memory (on repo 1) git annex get file --from repo2 would result in ``file`` being gotten, and then dropped, from repo2, even though both repos were set to manual. But, the unhelpful part, is I can't even remember exactly when this happened (maybe a year ago), so this might not help narrow it down. """]]