Hi Craig,

I apologise for my carelessness. In the days when I needed frequent help (2000 - 2007) bottom posting was preferred, and so I defaulted to that position. It was not laziness, just a lack of awareness that I included too much of the thread. Most of my early days of assistance were fixed within one or two posts.

That this has dragged on so long is a frustration for me. I made a mistake when I first loaded Ubuntu in that I did not have the other two drives available, then, by installing a user system instead of a server system I precluded setting up the two drives in RAID or btrfs. And this is what has led to believe that my easy way out of this is to do a clean install with all my drives connected and choose "server" and hopefully the bouncing ball will get me to a cheerful conclusion.

I have retired from Telstra to build a business in photography and I choose to use Darktable and GIMP for image processing, learning curve is steep on each of these and most nights my brain has turned to putty.

So I will read your response in the morning when I am fresh, and I am grateful for your continued assistance. I thought that by using a raid system or the btrfs then I may have had some security for my data, but maybe I should just use the now substantial amount of storage I have and just buy more cloud space when I need it.

Thanks again

Andrew

Firstly, can you please configure your thunderbird mail client to NOT send
HTML mail?  Or at least send both HTML and plain text?  HTML mail really
screws up the quoting, making it very hard to tell what's quoted and what's
new.

Also, don't bottom-post.  Bottom posting is evil.  And please trim your quotes
to the bare minimum required to provide context for your response - no-one
wants to read the same quoted messages over and over again just because you
couldn't be bothered editing your messages properly.  It tells the reader "I
don't care about wasting YOUR time, as long as I save myself a few precious
seconds".