by Brenda Mallinson.
Thanks, Severin!
Yes, it should be a simple backup and restore exercise. I suspect the issue is with the remote 2.4 server settings, as even with my tedious copy and paste routine, there are some files that just won't upload. These files are .ppt, pdf and an image.
May have something to do with file size? even though the server (and course) upload file limit is 100MB, and these files are on the large side but only up to about 4 MB.
What a waste of time and energy ...