I moved all my folders/files off my Cache drive to upgrade firmware.  I switched my share settings to move back from Array to Cache, ran Mover, and while the folders/files moved, only AppData folder became a dataset.  Is this normal or should the sub-folders have also become datasets?

Unraid currently only create datasets for top level folders (shares), it does not create child datasets, if you want to use them you must create them manually.

If I’m not mistaken when unRAID creates the top level dataset mover can still move everything from cache to array or vice-versa; however, any datasets created by yourself, at least if done with SIO’s auto dataset script, will no longer be able to be moved with mover.  It’s been a bit and I think I posted these details in another post but if my memory serves me correctly the files get moved but the source folders/files never get deleted and then they exist on both cache and array. It seems is perhaps a permissions error in deleting the dataset?

 

This issue can easily be created by making a folder with subfolders/files on the array, having mover move it to the cache, using the auto dataset script to convert those subfolders to datasets, changing the share from cache to array, and running mover again which will not move everything back to the cache. 

20 hours ago, bugsysiegals said:

If I’m not mistaken when unRAID creates the top level dataset mover can still move everything from cache to array or vice-versa; however, any datasets created by yourself, at least if done with SIO’s auto dataset script, will no longer be able to be moved with mover.

This is correct.

 

20 hours ago, bugsysiegals said:

It’s been a bit and I think I posted these details in another post but if my memory serves me correctly the files get moved but the source folders/files never get deleted and then they exist on both cache and array. It seems is perhaps a permissions error in deleting the dataset?

IIRC no files inside a child dataset will be moved/copied.