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 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="209.250.56.87"
 subject="comment 6"
 date="2013-12-17T16:11:52Z"
 content="""
You could use `git annex forget --drop-dead` in that situation, but what I would do is first `git annex describe lostremote \"my old drive that I lost\"` and then set up the replacement drive with whatever description you had before.
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