[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="CandyAngel"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2016-02-23T12:24:48Z"
 content="""
git-annex verifies the content in other repositories when you use --clean-duplicates because if it did not, it could delete the only copy of a file you had, because it was deleting files it knew about, but didn't have.

As for what you are attempting, [maybe something like this](https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/recover_data_from_lost+found/)?
"""]]