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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="209.250.56.87"
+ subject="comment 6"
+ date="2013-12-17T16:11:52Z"
+ content="""
+You could use `git annex forget --drop-dead` in that situation, but what I would do is first `git annex describe lostremote \"my old drive that I lost\"` and then set up the replacement drive with whatever description you had before.
+"""]]