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Thanks, I will do that *if* it re-occurrs. I changed a few more settings, mainly my cache is offline, and tried to copy five TV series' seasons. Currently that is underway and is working. I did notice that all of the folders appeared quickly after I hit the go button. Now the files are being moved.

I have tried this three times with only fails. I have removed the cache drive and copied the files to the share found un "users." No joy. Previous fails were copying them to the share drive found under cache. These fails produced the copying of only ONE movie. Every time though the copy process lists every file as it "copies" and dutifully counts the remaining time aand the percentage complete. Jeff

Where would I find the setting to turn off caching? Is it the per drive settings on the main page or is there a global setting?

I'm sure it's me. My first attempt at moving content to my array from an attached drive (4tb Barracuda in a USB enclosure) was a fail. Plugged it in, it was detected in unassigned devices, mounted it, located it in file manager, checked the ~3tb of content I wanted to move, hit "copy", poked around for my "share", found it under "cache" when I expanded it and hit the button to execute. ONE file showed up in Windows file explorer, verified by JRiver. HOWEVER, file manager dutifully listed each file and counted down the ~4 hours it took to "copy" the selected files. I had previously set the min free space on the cache to 100GB on advice from a thread on this forum. Another note, when I drilled down on "cache" in file managr, I selected the folder I want the files to be in. What did I do wrong? Thanks, Jeff

Thanks @Kilrah, it is starting to come together for me. 🙃

Thanks. I was hoping to rely on the mover to balance the content across the array. I'd like to do this unattended.

Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question. I have several 4TB drives filled with content that I want to move to my array as quickly as possible. My current cache drive is a 1TB WD (spinning rust) drive. Could I swap in a content-filled drive, designate it as cache and let the mover take it from there? Jeff

Thanks. Is it a problem that my cache drive is 1TB, and there is 4TB of files that I will be copying to the unRAID?

I am moving my movie library to 4K and would like to know if I can attach a 4TB drive of movies to my unRAID computer and use the local bus to copy the data to the share folder used by JRiver?

That seems undesirable. A very large disk, actual or logical, will either go mostly unused or require that the unRAID array be populated with similarly sized disks.

Ummm, be ready and press ctrl+g sooner to enter the card's BIOS settings? unRAID handles the RAID. These cards are being used to add SATA ports to a motherboard. So, as I understand it, you do not want even JBOD mode. To unpack @Benson's reply a bit, HBA is Host Bus Adapter. An HBA adds SATA ports to a motherboard. I don't know how important it is to have the latest firmware. I don't. Anyway, the firmware version should be part of the text that goes by during computer bootup sequence. If it doesn't, you really need to access the BIOS. The RAID level/off setting is there. I and others from what I have seen here don't load the card's BIOS as we aren't using the RAID function. As I understand it, it doesn't matter if the card is IT or IR as the latter's RAID is turned off to let unRAID apply the RAID mode.

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Deleting a Windows 10 credential and creating a new one is one of the recommended steps to try when a previously working access stops working.

Pls report how it goes!

It is driven by the chipset and that can be determined by the model. That said, being a Windoze guy and having only dabbled in Linux, I found knowing what I had and knowing what I wanted to do still only step one. Good luck! jeff