Solved File Explorer NAS display.


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As you can see in the attached screenshot, this is my drive listing in File Explorer. The NAS used to display the same as the other drives showing the capacity bar, but recently it has changed to the image seen. If I click on properties, it just shows network information, not the capacities.
Can anyone tell me what has happened and how to revert to the standard drive display? This may have happened when I updated to 25H2 but I could be wrong.Screenshot 2025-12-17 153742.webp
 

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You have a Media server running on your Synology NAS.

Stop the package to get back
 

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Thanks Helmut. I did that but the NAS has diappeared completely from Explorer. Any ideas?
 

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Does not show up in that View.

I have 2 NAS, Printer, Scanner, another Laptop on the network but they do not show in that particular View.

Click on Network in LH column to get a better view and classification.
 

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That works. As I say, it used to show the capacity bar for the NAS but I can live without it. I have recently updated the NAS Disk Station software from Synology so it may be connected. Thanks Helmut.
 

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sydh said:
I have recently updated the NAS Disk Station software from Synology so it may be connected.
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That is not connected, just before writing that I updated my newest Synology NAS, nothing changed.
sydh said:
it used to show the capacity bar for the NAS
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I have had Synology NAS boxes since 2013 through Windows 8.1 - 10 - 11 and they have never shown "capacity bar" in File Explorer.
 

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sydh said:
Thanks Helmut. I did that but the NAS has disappeared completely from Explorer. Any ideas?
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sydh said:
...As I say, it used to show the capacity bar for the NAS but I can live without it...
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You need to map a drive letter to the share on your NAS.

File Explorer will only show the capacity bar for a network drive if you have mapped a drive letter for it. Here my File Explorer shows the same network drive twice, first added as a URI network location (\\server\share) and again as a mapped Z: drive.

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I believe my NAS was mapped but somehow it has changed from that to what it is now. No idea how but it definitely looked like that shown by Bree. It was always my warning to cleanup backup versions on the drive when space was running low. Have just remapped it again and its back how it was. Strange.
 

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sydh said:
Have just remapped it again and its back how it was. Strange.
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:thumbsup:

sydh said:
I have recently updated the NAS Disk Station software from Synology so it may be connected.
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That may well have had the side-effect of disconnecting your previous drive mapping. Glad you've got it back now. :-)
 

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Bree said:
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That may well have had the side-effect of disconnecting your previous drive mapping. Glad you've got it back now. :-)
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I'm sure you're right. I was not expecting anything to change which is why it threw me. I was shifting a few gig of folders around my various drives so I also started doubting myself, thinking I had done something wrong somewhere. All back to normal again so thank you everyone for steering me back again.👍👍
 

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sydh said:
I'm sure you're right. I was not expecting anything to change which is why it threw me. I was shifting a few gig of folders around my various drives so I also started doubting myself, thinking I had done something wrong somewhere. All back to normal again so thank you everyone for steering me back again.👍👍
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So glad for you. Kindly make sure to mark your thread as solved as it may be helpful to others.
Thanks man.
 

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