Dear all, I had (snif!) and indirect repo with 2.7 of pdf files with filenames were manually added by me with author and title, and took years of work. I had them in a git annex repo from quite some time. Now I'm trying to sync them to an usb drive. Main repo lives in an ubuntu box with ext4 filesystem. I failed many times to do this, both on fat and exfat external drives (direct). As I was failing, I tried to to a test on the same local filesystem. So I have my main repo in /home/juan/papers and the other in /tmp/papers. While trying to sync them using the assistant, i noticed that most of the folders and symlinks from the main repo just dissapeared. I still have them in .git/annex/objects but I don't know how to recover the links. I must say I'm an everyday git user, and big fan of git-annex but I'm trying to use it for six months without luck. I think I will quit after recovering the data, if possible. EDIT 1 ------- After digging around a bit, I found that I had the keys, and could find out the original filename, for example: git log --stat -S 1279 commit a6362df13d728037875320a457182acb073d08ea Author: Juan Cardelino Date: Fri Nov 21 11:25:31 2014 -0200 2013_august/feature_matching_by_searching_maximum_clique_on_high_order_association.pdf | 1 + LevelSets/fedkiw/stanford2002-06.pdf | 1 + new/nfa/00106994.pdf | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+) How can I recover them? EDIT 2 ------- Seems that I overwritten my repo with a new repo. Because git log only shows 4 entries from today. Is it possible that the webapp has made that?