Hi Phil,
Thanks for the response,
That article is helpful to start the process, and I have read it thank you,
I would like to state my observations from my efforts of transferring data from the hidden DE file to a new drive (storage space no redundancy atm)
From what I understand od drive extender it writes data in the same folder to multiple hard drives.
The folder structure is in place, however files in these folders may be represented, but not actually there. (tombstones) I think these files are on another drive in the DE pool
When you try to copy a file that is represented, but not actually there, your system stalls and eventually errors out (after a LONG time)
This makes coping folders tedious as you need to weed these files out so the copy process can proceed.
This is my 1st attempt of coping files from drive to drive on a server with 5 hard drives, I have yet to try another drive, so we will see if this behavior continues.