I dragged a HDD from a networked computer

3 Mar 2007 3:51 AM

Stan Hilliard

In explorer, I inadvertantly dragged the icon of a hard drive from a
networked computer to the local PC. Explorer displays the networked
HDD as if it were a local subfolder. But I know that the files don't
reside locally because it happened too fast for copyig to take place.

If I delete the HDD icon, will that delete the files in that drive?
How can I reverse the situation without deleting any files?

Information will be appreciated,
Stan Hilliard

3 Mar 2007 6:29 AM

Lez Pawl

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> In explorer, I inadvertantly dragged the icon of a hard drive from a
> networked computer to the local PC. Explorer displays the networked
> HDD as if it were a local subfolder. But I know that the files don't
> reside locally because it happened too fast for copyig to take place.
>
> If I delete the HDD icon, will that delete the files in that drive?
> How can I reverse the situation without deleting any files?
>
> Information will be appreciated,
> Stan Hilliard

perhaps drag it back to Network Places........

3 Mar 2007 8:04 AM

Ian

If you rightclick and select Properties that should tell you if it's a
shortcut or an actual folder.

The other thing is, if I wasn't sure I'd be inclined to disconnect the
network lead while removing it.

At least Windows is reasonably sensible in this regard, most times anyway.
On a Mac, you remove desktop items at your peril.

3 Mar 2007 2:41 PM

Stan Hilliard

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:04:13 -0800, Ian <I**@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>If you rightclick and select Properties that should tell you if it's a
>shortcut or an actual folder.

In Properties, the only thing showing is the path to drive E on the
other computer, whose name is "tower".

Here is all information on the properties window: There is only one
tab: "General."

E on northgate (Tower)

Type: Folder

Target: \\tower\e

Created: Yesterday <snip>

Comment: \\tower\e

By the way, properties is wring that type=folder. There is no folder
on the other computer named "E". It is a hard drive.

Stan Hilliard

3 Mar 2007 5:02 PM

Stan Hilliard

Ian wrote:
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>>If you rightclick and select Properties that should tell you if it's a
>>shortcut or an actual folder.

>In Properties, the only thing showing is the path to drive E on the
>other computer, whose name is "tower".
>Here is all information on the properties window: There is only one
>tab: "General."

>E on northgate (Tower)
>Type: Folder
>Target: \\tower\e
>Created: Yesterday <snip>
>Comment: \\tower\e

>By the way, properties is wring that type=folder. There is no folder
>on the other computer named "E". It is a hard drive.
>Stan Hilliard

I created a shortcut on my local desktop to \\tower\e. Its icon has
the little hook that indicates shortcut. Double clicking brings up
explorer displaying all the folders on the networked HDD E: That
shortcut is clearly a shortcut because it has the little hook on its
icon.

However in explorer the icon for the remote drive does not contain the
hook. If I directly select a file on that remote drive I can delete it
from local. So what is a fool-proof method of knowing by, inspecting
properties, that deleting the remote drive from local explorer
would/would not delete everything on it?