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Makes sense. I only moved a few at first. I'll try the copy for the next batch. Looks fine so far.

ok, finally some progress. my gui doesn't look like the dynamix manual I found on the forums, but I did finally locate one of the icons that accesses the file management functions. Moving my first test batch of files, if all is ok I'll start playing solitaire with my shares/disks and see if I can sequentially reformat with new file system.

Ah. See... confusion!

I uninstalled and reinstalled to see... an install script ran and there was no add/edit container page or anything about a template. Confused.

I'll search for the spaceinvader videos and watch those. I downloaded the Dynamix app and install it. It shows up in the installed apps section. This part of the Unraid manual/documentation though: "Typically, you will install a new docker by going to the Apps page and clicking the download icon on the listing for the docker. This takes you to the Add/Edit Container page, a form with many things already filled in. The Apps page (Community Applications) fills those in for you based on a template the docker author has provided." I don't recall the add/edit container page but maybe I clicked through it? But now when I try to add a container and select a template from the drop down, I have no templates. Should I uninstall and reinstall the dynamix app? Or is there something else I'm missing?

OK, I need some help. Maybe just a pointer to the "idiots guide to..." that I can't seem to find. I'm pretty sure I installed the Dynamix File Manager plugin from the community apps. But I have no idea how to use it. Probably because, despite watching a couple of youtube videos on what Docker is, the whole Docker/Plugin/App/Container part(s) of unraid are entirely new to me and I don't have any idea where to start. Is there a good primer for plugins/containers/whatever? What I found in the documentation seems to assume you have some basic understanding of what these things are, or where to find the things discussed. I do not! I thought maybe I could create new shares, one per disk, including only that disk and excluding the others, and move files over that way. Worked for the first two but not the next several... I think probably because they are like 98-99% full?

Thanks, will check that one out. Seemed there were a lot of methods, none of which I was familiar with!

OK, got the license key migrated to new USB. Array starts fine. I'll rerun a parity check. I had some issues getting the new server visible under windows 10. That is sorted for the moment. Hopefully stays that way. Now I need to figure out how to update all disk file systems to, I guess, XFS? I have 6TB total free space, and looking at how that's distributed I should be able to move a smaller drive to empty space, update it, and keep shuffling things around in that manner. But... I have no idea how to move files from one physical disk to another? I saw a little about command line mv to do it. I'm not familiar with Linux at all, so a little nervous about not being able to see what I'm actually doing. Are there easier or more intuitive tools to do this data moving?

Ha, that seems to have done it! All shares were set to No. I changed them to Yes and everything seems to be visible and accessible at least in one of my Win10 computers, for now at least. I'll check the others this evening. I'm a little nervous that I had that windows error briefly then back to ok, so we will see how stable this is and whether I need to try a different approach. Many thanks. Will post again if issues recur/persist.

And just as quickly, that error has cleared and I can open it to a blank no shares window again. I just have no idea.

Oh, and strangely immediately after posting this I can no longer open/access /Tower from Network. I'm getting the "Windows cannot access \\Tower" message, error code 0x80070035 thing again. Weird.

My old unRaid v5.xx hardware died and I am in the process of getting things back going. I have migrated drives to a new(er) machine and successfully restarted the array with new USB running version 6.12.4 I still cannot access shares in windows 10. I have been browsing threads/stickies and trying everything I could. I can now see /Tower in the windows Network, and open it without an error (have been through multiple different error messages to get to this point). However, it is empty... I cannot see any of the shares that seem to be assigned in unraid. Global share settings are enabled. Not sure at this point if it's a windows network thing, or if I just don't have unraid configured correctly since it's a new build and just getting back up and going? Diagnostics attached, appreciate any help. tower-diagnostics-20231105-1005.zip

Finally got old drives and less old "new" CPU/mobo along with new SATA expansion board assembled into new rack case and new USB install. Everything seems to boot fine, all drives are detected in bios and in unraid and it recognizes parity drive. Just waiting on an email for the replace key request to migrate license to new USB GUID before I can go further.

Dang. Deliveries delayed until tomorrow and I'll be pretty busy the next few evenings. Eager to get everything assembled in new environment.

Awesome. I knew there was a reason I like unraid all those years ago. Will have parts over the next day or two to assemble new CPU/mobo and old HDD into a new rack mount case. No doubt I'll hit some snags and have some questions but there is hope now!

So fresh ver6 install, with super.dat file from old install? And just assemble with old HDD and let it rebuild parity if needed? Manually move license key to new USB? And then update HDD filesystem in new version?

I copied network.cfg from new version 6 USB to the old version 5 USB, they looked very similar, was hoping default install settings would clear up the network issue. It did not. Same results as before. I also copied the super.dat from old USB over to new USB, booted up, and was able to see and save the drive assignments from old configuration, so hopefully that will help. And good news... only 24TB, less than I was thinking. Looks like drives have advanced quite a bit, all I'm using are 3TB and 4TB drives.

diagnostics file from the new unraid ver 6 USB skynet-diagnostics-20231028-2305.zip

OK, created new USB with latest stable version, left network to use DHCP for now. Boots fine, assigns IP, I can see webgui on other computers on the network. The USB for old server had been working fine in this house and network for about 2 years, so scratching my head as to why it won't initialize network in the new computer. Does it know somehow the environment has changed? Is there a way to reset network config to default settings and go from there? I'll see about copying over super.dat file onto this unraid 6 USB. Would the new unraid version recognize the old drives if I installed them into new server, even though file system isn't supported? Wondering if I need to get old unraid USB working and go through upgrade process, or if just skipping to new version is possible without a real risk of losing data? My previous use was as NAS only. I didn't make use of any plugins or anything at the time that is of any consequence to me. i.e., nothing else in the old config/install I care about keeping. Just data on the drives.

Got it. That makes sense. I think I have another USB drive lying around, I'll try tonight to get a trial new version booted and see what that does. Hesitant to mess with current USB even though it's backed up a couple of times!

It's a 5.x version. Don't recall the exact version... but I think release candidate 8 was in there? Not sure I follow about booting a new version. I have a hardware failure in the current server and it can't even post. Wouldn't do any good trying to boot off a current unraid version USB. I was trying to boot the new server hardware off the existing USB to see if we could pull drive assignments prior to moving HDDs over. It boots, but seems I have no network currently to interface with it. Booting the new server off a new USB install wouldn't tell me anything useful about drive assignments. Would it shed enough light on the networking issue to be worth doing?

When pinging router I get 'Network is unreachable' Entering 'diagnostics' at root prompt in console I get 'command not found' I did find that ifcong is like ipconfig (Linux idiot here). That gives me IP of 127.0.0.1 and mask of 255.0.0.0, which obviously isn't right.

Geez. Stumped at the simplest of things. I booted the i5 system from the unraid USB and was able to successfully login to console, and so I assume successfully boot unraid. But that's all I can do. I can't see the webgui for the server from any connected devices on my network. Not access shares, just see the unraid hosted web gui. And I don't know why. I can think of nothing of significance that has changed on my network since I last was able to access the webgui. I've been struggling to keep visibility of drives in windows, but it was when the inability to even see webgui developed that made me think I had a hardware failure. The network.cfg file is set for DHCP=0 and a static IP, netmask, and gateway. As far as I know, there is no reason those settings should not still work. I did try editing the network.cfg several times, changing static IP, deleting that and setting DHCP=yes, deleting the entire network.cfg from USB drive, etc, to no avail. Since I can't access the webgui, I can't investigate the drive assignments. Worse, I'll have the same issue when swapping physical drives over... stuck at console without any ability to really access unraid. I tried searching for console commands to see if anything was helpful, but didn't find much for an old version like this. The network card in that i5 box should be fine. It has a Windows install on the M2 drive and when booted to windows, all is good there. I tried to find a way to investigate network status from console when booted to USB but no luck. Any suggestions?

Ha, good thought. I'll do that, thanks. New case arrives Monday so a little finger tapping until then

Thanks, I'll give it a shot. I want to migrate from old cube server case to a rack mount case so I'll wait for that to arrive before merging new CPU/mobo and old drives/controller to see what happens. I also ordered an IO CREST SI-PEX40138 4 port SATA card with the JMB585 chipset that afict from forum posts is better recommended for newer unraid versions. I'm using 9 drives currently, 8 on the controller and 1 on mobo, and with the 6 onboard on the new mobo this 4 port should at least handle current drives. I guess first things first, see what happens with old controller, then I can figure out how to migrate to new controller. And unfortunately I do not know which drive is parity, unless I'm lucky and only have one 4TB drive in the system. I'll take a look at the drives as I pull them. I can't boot current unraid so I can't get a snapshot of drive assignments.