Datasets dissappeared

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I think selecting “Private SMB Datashets and Shares” in the Purpose dropdown will set that field to “%U”. It’s part of the SMB Home Share feature.
If you pick Default share parameters you have fewer settings, which means fewer ways to mess things up.

You can delete the unwanted folders. Make sure you have created a snapshot first, that will save you if you accidentally delete something. In the Web-UI go to Datasets. Click the root dataset Volume1, then click Create Snapshot. Check the Recursive option and hit Save.

You can delete using the shell (dangerous, make sure you have a snapshot)

  • sudo rm -rf /mnt/Volume1/phak
  • sudo rm -rf /mnt/Volume1/Users/PHIL-PC

You can also delete in windows explorer. But you’d have to create a share first and permissions might get in your way.

You can delete the snapshot after you’re sure that everything went OK. Maybe wait a few weeks. If you haven’t set up automatic periodic snapshots do that as soon as you can.

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I was able to make a snapshot and delete the unwanted folders and it appears to have worked perfectly. Again, I thank you for everything you have done to help me resolve my issues.

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