First off, I paid for 2 pro licenses because there was a deal on getting 2 vice just 1.  I haven't found a use for my 2nd license.  Please, no offers to buy.  I have no interest in selling it.

 

When I moved last October I had some months pass due to the amount of activities going on with my life I lost touch with my computers.  Eventually I had time and a need to get file access so I set up my hardware.  I got the point of needing to plug in the Unraid USB and my brain went blank.  I have two licenses on different USB keys.  I worried about making the wrong choice and causing irreversible file damage or some other structural changes that would consume weeks to recover from.  It turns out I picked the wrong one the first time and was horrified when my user shares were not visible from the web interface.  I shut down and tried the other USB key.  I was happy to see my user shares once again, but I didn't notice that the allowed users field as well as all other fields were blank.  I found this out later when granting a family member to the media share to view photos.  It seems that by plugging in my Unraid unmodified default USB key caused a loss of my user share control fields.

 

I'm curious how this could happen.  I though the user share information is stored on the USB key and not on the HDDs.  If that is true then how could this have happened?  I have data on my disks and don't want to risk any potential problems, otherwise I'd try to assist investigating this.

Run Check Disk on the flash in a PC.

Both Spinrite and CHKDSK inform me the USB key filesystem is not corrupted or damaged in any way.