Migrating from User Share to Disk Share

[Marco84]

Hi.  My goal is to migrate my photos from what is now a multi-disk user share to a single disk share due to smb performance issues with user shares, which seems to be much better when using smb with disk shares. 

 

I originally created a user share for photos that spread files across both of my disks (disk1, disk2).  I do see that there are some folders within that share that have been split across both disks (disk1, disk2).

 

I would now like to use only disk1 for these files, so I changed the settings to include disk1, exclude disk2. I thought Unraid would automatically consolidate the files onto disk1, but it did not.  I tried changing the split level from automatic to manual, and also tried stopping/restarting the array, but the files remain split across both disks.  Do I have to manually move them from disk2 to disk1?  If so, what is the process for doing that so that i don't mess anything up.

 

Thank you!

[Veah]

 

[Marco84]

Thanks much @Veah!  I went through and it works great. So if I'm switching to a single disk model, I'm going to specify that disk in the include selector for that share.  Would I also need to change the split level from automatic to manual?  Or is that moot given a single disk?

[Veah]

On a single disk is moot. 

If you change later on then worth looking at.  I like keeping my tv series seasons on same level/disk so they can roll from one episode to the next id I do a binge watching.