It has been nearly a week now, and, all-in-all, I am pretty satisfied. Although it has been dreadfully tedious and as frustrating as these things always are, it has not been any worse than I was expecting.
As I suspected, 90%+ of my remaining frustration is the result of the brain-death of Windows Explorer.
2 components in particular are making me want to scream and pull my hair out.
When I hover over a thumbnail or icon, I need to see the details, file size in particular.
I also need to see the full path of whatever I am looking at, somewhere, preferably at the top.
Although I have been into "Tools" and "View" numerous times, and ticked the settings that seemed to be what I needed to make these things happen, they don't.
Paths never seem to go up more than a level or 2, most of my files look like they top out at "harry" although I know that it is actually "C:\users\harry" so why is it so stubborn about not saying so?
I have 5 hard drives internal and several more loose ones that I hook up externally from time to time, so these things are important to me.
I am still struggling to keep "libraries" from ever seeing or acknowledging that any drive but C: exists. Those things are truly nasty and evil!
How do I get my thumbnails to give up information when I hover over them? In "View" it looks like I specified that, but it never happens.
Thanks!