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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="imlew"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/23858c3eed3c3ea9e21522f4c999f1ed"
+ subject="not about backends after all"
+ date="2023-11-17T08:09:22Z"
+ content="""
+Thanks for your help. 
+I've created a bare repo on one of the drives that didn't have a repo yet and have been moving the files to my laptops internal drive to add and commit and then back with `git annex move`, this seems to be working much better. (I already have more than half the files in the repo after one night, previously I had left it running for days and couldn't get that far. (And yes, the drives are very slow.))
+
+re the filesystems, I thought so, but unfortunately these have to compatible with both mac and windoze...
+"""]]