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The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “Public” can’t be found

Running Mac OSX Lion and using My Book Live for itunes storage, iphoto etc. Whilst downloading a podcast the Mac crashed and needed to be hard reset, (couldn’t force quit). 

Now unable to connect to My Book Live. Can see it as a shared item in the finder but when attempting to connect to the public folder there is a long delay before the error “The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “Public” can’t be found”.

I am able to access the drive through the UI. I even was able to add a new shared folder (named it Test) through the UI. When attempting to connect to this folder I get “The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “Test” can’t be found”.

Have I corrupted some files on the My Book when the Mac crash?

What should I do to resolve issue?

Any help or guidence much appreciated.

Hi,

I recommend that you run an extended test on the My Book Live. Go tor Dashboard > Utilities > Diagnostic > Extended test.

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