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I usually postpone large update as much as I can - nothing better than a slightly outdated but stable system.
Last time I updated, win10 did not get immediately in love again with my video card and that ended up in a horror story - three days debugging and force restarting to get things running properly again. Big loss of sweat, time and a few heartbeats.
So since I had a bit of time on my hands (which I could use to fix broken things after the update), I agreed about the update yesterday AND .... it went well. Win10 runs even smoother and is faster- which means really faster, because i could notice an improvement.
I still wait before declaring victory, but I enjoyed the free "fix" time that was not necessary 
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I believe no network drives mapped in your system. Lucky ...!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Mmmhh ! What do you mean ? I have my NAS mapped as a drive, and it was still available after the update.
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Now there are two people envy you for that... Me and OG...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Oh, it still works... I only had to re-create my user profile... MS only fd-up my mappings...
And I'm not in the position to choose network drives... And MS does not pay for new ones... And while I appreciate their concerns about security it is me (or my company in this case) who should decide what to do with those network drives I own... MS should give the means and not make the decisions...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Blame Samsung - they didn't update the drivers ... (or respond to my requests for tech support).
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Makes me wonder: I have a win7 box and a DNS-323 NAS. It sort of sees it but won't - by which I mean it sees it enough to identify configuration info from the drive but just won't let me make a real connection.
The annoying part is it used to work on the very same system and was mapped as N: - now I can no longer map it.
So - as far as you know - had this NAS-disruption also crept from Win10 to Win7 ?
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Try assigning the NAS a fixed IP, and map via that:
\\192.168.0.11\Publications\ Works for me, though I'd rather it worked via
\\SGNAS\Publications\ as it used to.
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Thank - anything's worth a try.
It's so damn annoying - but something we've somehow grown to accept - that the computer-beings (demonspawn, surely!) are self-modifying at seemingly random intervals.*
The NAS contains some fairly important backup files. Fortunately, the most valuable, about 6000 35mm negatives I color corrected and digitized, had backups of the backups on USB HDD's. My Dr Who, collection, however, is still trapped.
* now something that worked and suddenly doesn't work - reminds me a bit of growing older but I won't bring that up.
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Do you have Amazon Prime? If so, they give you free unlimited photo storage you can access from anywhere. An additional backup can never hurt!
* probably for the best.
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No amazon prime here.
As for storage on the cloud - not for me. Control freak that I am, I don't want to surrender any data to a remote site under someone else's control. (Bad enough it's needed for banks and stuff, but 'remote storage' (of money) is the point of a bank). I think I might have a raw 21/2" HDD in a safe deposit box with the photos, as well.
My distaste for the cloud mode comes from live experiences - such as my wife's lesson plans were supposed to be uploaded to such a site (UK based) but there was no facility by which to download them. It was the school's policy that they must be uploaded. If I recall, they eventually dropped that provider and the data was, well, gone. By then, we has our own backups. Others weren't so fortunate.
Should I ever be in the state where I want my stuff available everywhere I'll get a static IP for one of my domains and make my own little server. Something that may be done, anyway, to allow family to transfer pictures easily. If FireFox Send is reactivated, this latter option is less essential.
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I can understand your reluctance to use the Cloud - I don't trust it either - but as an additional backup for pictures it's not a bad idea. Your own file server is a better solution, but not available for most people!
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Well, for the mere mortals, I suggest they backup their image files using a pencil and paper.
It keeps them busy for a long time, or at least they rarely bother me again.
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One of my file servers on my home network can happily be mapped via name "\\FS01\..." but the other one, "\\FS00\...", doesn't seem to be recognised that way and I was going to use direct IP address mapping but instead I have a HOSTS file that I already use and copy to all my machines (for various good reasons I won't go into right now) so I just added the mapping to that - problem solved (or at least worked around)!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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There are reports that the updated Windows Defender flags HOSTS files that interfere with phoning home. Haven't seen it myself, I block stuff in my firewall.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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OK - assigned static IP. I still couldn't assign a network drive but now I was able to create an FTP connect - just as good to me.
You got me half way there - maybe more - so muchos danken.
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I realize I wasn't as clear as I ought to be: I was able to FTP into my drive - just as good for almost any purpose.
Now the system's running Win7 Pro - not Win10. This one's also Win7 but doesn't have the full directory tree described in the file but also doesn't have any mapped drives so perhaps those files are only created as needed.
I'll check on the other system somewhere along the way - got to get to work, now, and doing the feet-up-on-the-recliner-big-TV-monitor routine.
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I have a DNS-320 (presumably an older model than yours) and that works fine on Windows 10 (free upgrade from Windows 7). It has been set with a static IP address and has node names defined in my C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file. It works OK from MS-Edge (for the admin menus) or using n/w shares on Windows Explorer / DOS and as a media center (or from my Raspberry PI, but that is not relevant) its firmware version is 2.02, firmware date 09/23/2011 (there are no more recent firmware versions for it).
Question: Did you used to map the whole drive to a single share or did you create multiple shares on the drive? I don't know if that is relevant or not as, although I have multiple share on the NAS disc, I can still refer to the whole disc as \\nas\Volume_1 (or \\192.168.1.253\Volume_1)
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I used the utilities that came with it - like "find the drives" and then "map the drive". And it sat that way happily for years as Drive N: when it was powered up.
As far as anything Win10? So far as I know, it's never been in my dwelling let along on one of my systems. My most recent PC buy, a NUC, is running UBUNTU. My opinion (belief, faith, dogma) is that if MicroSloth want's to modify my computer whenever they want to and not give me a say in it then they can start by buying me the computer. My upgrade from Win7, when necessary, will be some form of Debian
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At one time, "Help" was integrated into Visual Studio.
Then it was "local" and "online" help / docs; and you could use one, the other, or both.
Then, it was online only.
Now, hit F1, wait, and eventually you get the "main" MS docs page. Nothing else.
Yeah .. I'm all excited about installing the new Win update. Not.
(MS Edge still won't run properly on my MS Surface. It even hijacks my IE session sometimes, which works, to show it is "better", while actually showing it is not. The "tool" area alone takes up over half the screen due to improper scaling)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
modified 20-Aug-20 9:09am.
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Good to know! 
/ravi
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An oldie but I like it
Rubber from the Middle East (7)
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And he's a noisy boy as well! 
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