Why is my snapshot not showing up in the .snap folder?

You created a snapshot of a regional file share in the console, from the CLI, or the API. The operation succeeded without errors. However, the new share snapshot does not appear to be in the .snap folder.

A possible reason for the missing snapshot is a delay due to client-side caching.

Run the following command to refresh the cache.

sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"