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What does this mean: couldn't get uname for uid 1005
When trying to use tar I got this msg - What does it mean?

couldn't get uname for uid 1005
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You have a file that is owned by uid 1005. However 1005 is not in /etc/passwd.
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This make sense, since the file was created on shared directory - I assume that this is not an error.

Thanks much for all your help.
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