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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.152.246.8"
+ subject="comment 7"
+ date="2012-10-16T04:52:12Z"
+ content="""
+That's where it stores files in the directory special remote. You can move the similar contents of /Volumes/subproject/.git/annex/objects/ to the same place as those and then run `git annex fsck --from smb --fast` and it'll learn about those files you already transferred.
+
+You probably also want to delete /Volumes/subproject/.git afterwards, and any git working tree that was checked out there before; the directory special remote does not use the git repository that you had there before.
+"""]]