So - just want to be completely sure.  I understand what is being recommended as far as using disk shares.  Does that mean I should go into the config and actually disable user shares?  Or simply do not export them?  I dont know what the ramafications are of disabling user shares - since my file structure was based on user shares originally. 

 

A bit confusing because each drive now has a Lost/Found folder.  If I look at my user shares, it shows approximately 50% of original data in its original location.  So take disk1 for example, I have a Lost/Found folder there with tons of randomly named folders.  By opening each one, I can see what data is inside - Movie/Photo/Music.  So say its a Movie file, I dont know what drive it originally was in, because it was based on user shares.  It could have been any of them.  I could point it towards the user share, but thats what I think Joe was referring to as far as taking much more time and not dealing with user shares for the time being.  I dont have a problem with that, but I think I must be missing somethign because there is no way to determine what disk a folder/file should be on, unless a completely new remap is in order. 

Each drive's lost+found has the files that were on that drive.  (unless you moved them since they were put in lost+found)

 

Therefore, if you were happy with the user-share rules, they belong on the same drive as the lost+found folder you find them on.

 

So, you do not have to figure out which disk drive they should be in, they are already on the correct disk.

 

There, you can leave the user-shares enabled, but enable the disk-shares and use the disk shares to move and re-name the files on the same disk as the lost+found they are on.

 

If a movie.ISO is 5Gig and you move if from 1 disk to another it will at best move at 50 MB/s.  (100 Seconds or so) .  If moved on the same disk the move will take a tiny fraction of a second. (all you are moving is the directory pointer that points to the data)

 

The only thing I could think of is to actually DISABLE user shares, and go with Disk Shares, and actually remap everything acccording to disk shares. ie: Ill say I want all movies to be on disk1, create a folder on disk1, and then move everything I find there.  Then create a folder for Music on Disk2, or whatever.  Essentially a complete remap based on disk shares.  Is that correct or am I completely missing something here. 

No need to disable the user-shares.  Just create the directories as needed on the same disk as the files and folders you find in lost+found.  If a lost+found file is a movie, and you used to have a "movies" user-share, just create a "movies" top level folder on the disk share that has the lost+found with that movie.

 

Now, if you are completely confused by what I've said, go ahead and use your user-shares.  Expect that since the disk are already partly full the system will think you are adding a whole new set of files and your disks will not end up allocated as you had originally intended.  It will be by the rules, but applied with the disks partly filled.  I'm just trying give you some advice to save you some time.

 

Joe L.

 

Fully understand...and before I go on, and despite what the end results may be in my recovery, I must thank you Joe, and others on here as well....You have been a lifesaver and your efforts are very much appreciated.  Very much.  Hats off to you. 

 

Your last explanation made it perfectly clear now.  I was just getting totally confused and thinking that each disk's lost and found folder was for any particular drive.  Where I came up with that, I have no clue.  Makes sense now. 

 

Apologize for the multitude of q's.  Again, you're the man. 

I don't think it's unaddressed, I did see something about Tom working on a fix.

It should be communicated better.

 

To me, "working on it" and pulling it from the download site and putting up warnings about it and not to use it are 2 different things. The first one basically means nothing while the second one addresses the problem.

 

I could assume Tom has an email address for every person he sold a key file to. Maybe even a mass email would be appropriate for such a serious issue.

 

Peter