@sdetweil thanks that helped somewhat. now MM2 loads but i just have a white box. Making progress though.

I am not having any luck installing this module. It is probably user error. I have MM2 up and running but when I paste the code and restart MM2 is tells ,e i need to create a config.js file.

WARNING! Could not validate config file. Starting with default configuration. Please correct syntax errors at or above this line: /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js:56
				rootFolderId: my id is here,
				                        ^

SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:722:23)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:798:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:645:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:560:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:685:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)
    at loadConfig (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:67:12)
    at App.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:202:3)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js:126:7)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:786:30)

Do I need to add anything to the ID? I have tried adding quotes but that did not seem to work.

thanks