Total Newbie - Apologies in Advance

[gnomus]

(11-05-2014 09:51)simoncn Wrote:  [quote='gnomus' pid='8989' dateline='1399794287']
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... If this becomes an issue, you can put the TP-Link wireless access point in your listening room and create a separate audio wireless network on a different wi-fi channel than your main home wireless network. You can then connect your control point to your audio wireless network instead of your home wireless network.

Thanks David and Simon for your help. I hadn't considered using the TP-Link as a separate "audio-only" wi-fi setup. I am quite attracted to that idea. If I do this, would it be possible for the TP-Link to be set up so that it can talk to my BT-Home Hub for those occasions when an internet connection might be required (for example, to update the Linn firmware)? This seems to me to be what David is suggesting I do with the "Airport Extremes". I am prepared to do this (Airport Extreme, that is) if necessary, but if I already have enough gear to do this, then ....

(11-05-2014 09:51)simoncn Wrote:  NAS HDDs use a special format that isn't the same as backup HDDs, so you can't swap them like that. You can convert a backup HDD into a NAS HDD by deleting all its partitions and putting it in the NAS for reformatting.

I thought that might be the case. Once I convert the disc for the QNAP, could I remove it from the QNAP, slide it into my Icy Dock (and who thought I'd ever end up typing a phrase like that?) and copy files from my Synology to it?

As an aside, I noticed that after last night's back up, my back up HD had considerably more (~10GB) of data on it than was stored on the NAS. I think that I worked out what was happening, but wanted to check. Yesterday, I had to relabel a number of folders in my music library (because of another foul-up). I assume that when I did the "Copy To" command to do the backup, the new folders were transferred to the backup HD which added them to the previously wrongly-labelled folders.

If that is correct, then should I reformat the back up HD before copying files to it (in order to remove all of the wrongly-labelled folders)?