Windows 10: A bunch of files in my Synology NAS win 11 home OS on my laptop have duplicated, are size 0...

I just noticed today that most of these files were seemingly duplicates of files stored on my Synology NAS as they were named the same, but with slightly different paths. Yet these duplicates were either severely damaged versions of the originals or completely empty as evidenced in their Properties or after clicking on them. So, I then tried to just get rid of all the broken files by shredding and/or deleting them. But I found that more just took their place, except now the file names were replaced with all numbers for most of them as shown in one of the attached pics. Now I don't necessarily

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Windows 10 File Explorer cannot access Synology NAS

I am using a HP laptop with Windows 10 Home and suddenly over the last several days a Synology NAS cannot be accessed from the laptop.

More information:

The version of Windows 10 Home - 1803

I have two other PC in the house and both can access the Synology NAS

I also have several Android tablets - they can access the NAS

On the laptop (with the issue) I also have a Synology management software product - It CAN access the NAS and open files

I originally mapped the NAS several months ago on the laptop and the mapped drives worked as expected until yesterday,

Yesterday I started getting messages saying "… the network path was not found." every time I tried to access/map the NAS

After several reboots of the laptop (yesterday) I was finally able to map the NAS, but only by typing in "\\ (NAS Name) \" before I started the mapping process.

This morning the same mapping (that worked yesterday evening) is not working and giving the same error message I saw yesterday morning.

Just to recap

Running laptop - windows 10 Home (1803)

Mapped NAS drives worked fine until yesterday

Synology management software on same PC can access the NAS and open files

Several other PCs can open files

I was able to re-establish connections yesterday by specifying the NAS name when I restarted the mapping

Today the mapping does not work (again).

 

Finding duplicate files

Hey hey,

During the years the backups have just accumulated in random places, essentially, and I would like to clean up. Is there a program that can search for duplicate files? And by that I mean identical files. I tried dupeGuru, but that somehow found ... all files to be identical I guess? Like how a bunch of jpg's with different names, sizes and locations being marked 100% identical, or how a bunch of xls-files with completely different everything also were 100% matches with each other. I don't need any fancy functions, just a list of the files that share the name and filesize and created/last write dates.

 

Save-as errors on NAS drive - files duplicated

Windows 10 Pro system with Word 365, and files saved on NAS drive.
“User” folders have also been “moved” so they point to the NAS device.
On the host system the NAS device has been mapped as the Z drive. In other words when opening “My Docs” it looks at the folder/files stored on the NAS.
These folders are also defined as shared so that another system has rights to read/write to the same folders.



When a document is “Saved As”, currently the document is saved as it should be with a new name where it should be saved.
It also creates duplicate entries in a folder called “#recycle” (if it doesn't exist it creates this folder), one file with the same saved-as name, and another temp file given a random alpha/numeric name.
Both entries in the #recycle subfolder are “blank”.
It also creates the wrong link in the Word “recent docs” list pointing to the item in the #recycle folder.



Another PC using Windows 7 + Office 2007, can access these shared folders, however the “save-as” function creates the same problem.



There are no issues with the standard “save” function.



Other info; I7 system with 6 GB ram with Raid 1- 2 x 1GB NAS. NAS Synology ds216j 6.1.
Using McAfee AV.



Networking/Word/Windows issue? Any suggestions?