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This is still not working. I have waited and the contents of the primary folder have not been replicated to the other folder. However, if i create a text file in the Primary folder, its immediately replicated to the other folder. <br />
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so why is this not working for the existing contents?
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This is still not working. I have waited and the contents of the primary folder have not been replicated to the other folder. However, if i create a text file in the Primary folder, its immediately replicated to the other folder.

so why is this not working for the existing contents?

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I'm going to have to use RoboCopy, it seems i cannot figure out how get existing files to replicate automatically to the new server...<br />
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Thanks.
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I'm going to have to use RoboCopy, it seems i cannot figure out how get existing files to replicate automatically to the new server...

Thanks.

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Hi, i have done all of our shares except for one (replicating to a new server and then breaking the original connection) but for some reason the one share is not working properly and its possible i might have missed a step and need some help identifying it. I had added the target folder to be replicated to <a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/04_w18/847427/associate.jpg" target="_blank" title="dfs (58 KB)"><img alt="dfs" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/04_w18/800_847427/associate.jpg" /></a>, but when i check out the target folder on the new server, it has a folder in there called &quot;DFSprivate&quot; ? I left it overnight and its still the same...<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/04_w18/847429/dfsprivate.jpg" target="_blank" title="dfs target share (69 KB)"><img alt="dfs target share" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 762px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/04_w18/847429/dfsprivate.jpg" /></a>
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Hi, i have done all of our shares except for one (replicating to a new server and then breaking the original connection) but for some reason the one share is not working properly and its possible i might have missed a step and need some help identifying it. I had added the target folder to be replicated to , but when i check out the target folder on the new server, it has a folder in there called "DFSprivate" ? I left it overnight and its still the same...

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