"SMB was not built for this," Lee muttered, staring at the Event Viewer. The log was red with error 0x80070035 . The network path was not found. But the path was there. The server was fine. The problem was the metadata .

"I taught SMB to read," Lee said.

At 2:00 AM, the server did something strange. The font cache directory, which normally sat at 200GB, began to shrink. It dropped to 150GB. Then 50GB. Then 5GB.

Lee watched in horror as the font files began reorganizing themselves .