@Chris_Y

I'll probably have to try that formatter out. Putting NOOBS Lite on my reformatted 32 GB card worked beautifully. One particular blessing was that my TwinVNC window was back to fitting properly inside my Workbench screen. I copied over my old Home/pi directory contents, but there was still a lot missing that I had expected to recover with backup recovery. I realized that some of the stuff I wanted might not have been on the most recent backup, so I did perhaps the most stupid thing I have done yet this year: I started recover a backup from a week or so ago. When I saw it doing something to some sort of /.kernel file I realized that it was from my non-NOOBS backup, and cancelled, but too late. Now TwinVNC comes up way to narrow or way too tall.

So I have a lot of re-doing to do, yet again! First I will try backing up the 8 GB NOOBS card (I can't remember whether I had the good TwinVC window with that) and recovering to the 32 GB card. That probably won't do the trick.

Next I'll see what holding the Shift key for Recovery during OS booting does. If that is still not enough, then I will take your hint and go back to installing NOOBS Lite again on an empty card. Experience tells me that will work, but it sure takes a long time.

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@Signal

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If you need to copy files as root you can open a terminal and 'sudo pcmanfm'

Really?Quote:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo pcmanfm ** Message: x-terminal-emulator has very limited support, consider choose another terminal ** (pcmanfm:2066): WARNING **: The directory '~/Templates' doesn't exist, ignoring it

This, even as it opens /home/pi on screen with Templates in full attendance.

"Shift" key recovery worked, but the "few minutes" to install was well over an hour. Then getting HPLIP back for printing took another hour, to my surprise, and left me without the icon at the top of the screen, and the ability to print only from LibreOffice and Scribus. Jpegs, .png, PDF, etc., no go, directly, so far.

One bright spot: the TwinVNC window size is perfect!

@Chris_Y

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The official SD Card formatter tool is your friend: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

I was planning to reformat my backup card with that today, but maybe you hadn't noticed: it says it works on Windows and Macs! Sort of worthless.

@kilaueabart

If you use the RPi Accessories> SD Card Copier tool it does the whole job. First it formats the card then makes a complete copy of the card in the computer.

Did you also know the cards come in different speeds SD, SDHC, SDXC ?

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@Signal

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If you use the RPi Accessories> SD Card Copier tool it does the whole job.

The "whole job" would be a bit too much. I just wanted to clear out my Deja-dup card and start over.
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Did you also know the cards come in different speeds SD, SDHC, SDXC ?

I didn't quite know that. I have two micros and two regular size ones handy. I see they each have an "HC" on them. I don't know about the one that is powering this at the moment. Would SDXC work on a RPi3?

My recovery is working well, but some oddities have inspired me to start a new thread that won't require scrolling down to a second page to read.