Frazzled and Frenzied
It took an awfully long time for the confusion in my mind to settle. I had been trying to get my Synology server to connect to two of my laptops, quite unsuccessfully I might add. My brain had got caught up in the twirl of connections, passwords, users, protocols, and permissions. Eventually, I gave up and started to watch television, The Americans is our binge-series of the moment. It is suitably undemanding, which meant that gradually my mind quietened from the earlier frenzy into something like normal mode. Three episodes later, and the threat of nuclear war still on the brink (although of course, we know that it didn't happen don't we) it is time to call it a night. And then, just as we prepared for bed the eureka moment hit me. Why bother syncing two or more computers, why not just have the newest in sync, and the others backed up periodically, manually. I determined that I would set it up that way, but in the morning, because now I wanted to sleep. In future, I will try ...