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4. Click the gear icon for the folder.

5. Click the gear icon in the pop-up menu.

6. Change the settings as explained in the following table.

DescriptionItem

Properties

A unique name to identify the shared folder. Do not include spaces in the name. All characters

must be alphanumeric.

Name

An optional description to help identify the shared folder.Description

Select the Bit Rot Protection (Copy-on-write) check box to enable bit rot protection. For

information, see Bit Rot Protection on page 54.

Bit Rot Protection

Select the Compression check box to enable data compression. Compression is only

available if bit rot protection is enabled. Compression saves storage space and increases

the speed of data transfers, but the compression and decompression processes require

additional resources.

Compression

Network Access

For information about how to provide folder access to users and groups, see Set Network Access Rights to Shared

Folders on page 62.

Snapshots

For information about how to configure snapshots, see View and Change Share Snapshot Properties on page

111.

File Access

For information about how to configure access rights for files and folders, see Set Up Access Rights to Files and

Folders on page 75.

7. Click the Apply button.

8. Click the OK button.

Your settings are saved and the pop-up menu closes.

Shared Folders

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