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Map a drive letter to the folder in which you are working.

  1. Click the yellow Folder icon in your Task Bar to start File Explorer.
  2. In the left menupane, find and click "This PC"
  3. Select "the Computer" tab  from the menu bar at the top . If there is no menu bar, hold down the "Alt" key to force the menu bar to displayof the window.
  4. Click "Map network drive"
  5. In the "Map network drive" wizard
    1. Choose a Drive letter - the drive letter chosen does not matter
    2. For the Folder, type in the full path of the folder in which you need to work, separating each folder name with a backslash, and starting the whole path with \\afs\cnf.cornell.edu
      1. For example, if you would like to map the folder at shares - public
      2. Start with: \\afs\cnf.cornell.edu
      3. and then separate each folder name with a backslash: \ followed by shares followed by \ followed by public for a grand total of:
      4. \\afs\cnf.cornell.edu\shares\public
    3. If you work in this folder a lot, leave checked Reconnect at sign-in . Otherwise, uncheck this box.
    4. Click Finish

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Select another folder in a different AFS "volume" and then return to the original intended target folder and try the Paste again. While there is no indication in the GUI of whether or not a particular folder is a different volume...

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