Since the crash made me think differently about a better way of organising and locating storage.
These two Macs could be Mac 1 Work , Mac 2 Play and by using Voodoo Pad to tell me where to look not only for word docs and pdf’s but everything on Mac 1&2.
Forget cloud storage -as I don’t work that way- and use a flash drives, bob’s your uncle it would cure more than one problem in one hit.