Problem solved! 80-100 METERS of illumination!

You have very long calendar entries and the CSS block stretches to accommodate that. The default length is 25 characters. You can shorten that with the calendar’s 'maxTitleLength' config option.

You can’t put it in a Win machine and “see” it. Those partitions are unix specific, and Windows can not read them, at least one of them it can not read. Different filesystem. If you need a backup, your question should be: what do I want to back up?

• The file system can be recovered simply by burning a new image on the SD card and reconfiguring
• MagicMirror can be reinstalled by doing a 'git pull'

As far as MM is concerned, what’s user configurable is your config.js. Any modules you’ve installed can be reinstalled with a simple 'git pull' to the repository. So you can cut and paste your config.js into Notepad. You can use FTP to transfer it …

For the other, system specific configurations, you can copy all of those config files over to a Win machine.

Honestly, I don’t backup my MM. I don’t see a need to. It’s easy enough to recover, unlike a Windows machine and all the applications on it. I can wipe the card, and start from scratch and have it back up and running within 15 minutes. Try doing that with a Win machine … unless you’re doing a full system image restore, which still takes longer.

And I’ve been running computers, servers, all types of systems for decades … an rpi running MM isn’t worth doing a backup on. And mine even contains copies of my own code that I’ve written. But since that stuff is also on github, again I don’t see a need to bother. A simple 'git pull' and 30 seconds later I have it all again.

Thanks. Slowly working through it.Need to roll in those multi-day events … seeing some stuff from our work calendar that isn’t displaying correctly … yet. Just a matter of proper parsing and displaying …

And yes, I suppose simply 'purge' would get the job done, but there are times I only want to remove the binaries, but leave my config files in place. I prefer forcing myself to actually add the '--purge' bit each time … sort of a mental check.

No, the instructions, as written, are accurate. You missed the last bit of Step 1:

1. Navigate into your MagicMirror’s modules folder and execute git clone https://github.com/ptrbld/MMM-Button.git.**`A new folder will appear navigate into it.`**
2. Execute npm install to install the node dependencies.

Had you done that last bit, you would be executing the next step from within the button module folder, not within the MagicMirror folder.

In your predicted year that your rpi will crash, everything would have been upgraded anyway, libraries, OS, other programs. It makes more sense to redo it from scratch rather than reloading old (and in some cases, obsolete) software back on. What’s the point in doing that, and then spend another several hours upgrading, and recompiling anyway? Even Raspberry Pi’s OS gets upgraded a few times a year …

Honestly, this is how people get themselves in trouble with security patches that are never applied. They have a device running, in their mind it’s fine, and yet it has gaping security holes that are addressed in future upgrades. Seriously folks, stay ontop of updates, upgrades, and what not. Don’t juse assume a backup from a year ago, or even 3 months ago, is “just fine”. None of my OS (I said OS, not config files) backups are more than a few days old.

So just looking at this, and all you amazing folks who are eager to jump in and start writing code … seriously, you all should. That’s no joke … start somewhere. There’s plenty of information on the web, and several folks here who can also help.

Anyway, my take on this:
Doing a local folder with pictures, while possible, also adds a lot of unknowns. For example, the images might not necessarily all be the same physical dimension, and loading one might go really fast while loading another will be rather slow because it’s so much bigger and you’re scaling it down. Or, or you pre-process your images to a specific size and then upload them to the rpi. BUT! Why do that when there are services out there that automatically do that for you? Let’s look at options:

Flickr has a public API: https://www.flickr.com/services/api/
They even have a node.js API kit making it easier to integrate: https://www.npmjs.com/package/flickrapi

iCloud API … iCloud API … anyone, iCloud API? (sorry, Ferris Bueller reference there.)
Same goes for Facebook …
And unfortunately, also Google Photos. They terminated development on the Picasa API on May 1st, but have yet to open their Photos API to the public. So you’re stuck using the Picasa one for now till they completely shut it down, at which point you can only hope they would’ve released the new one.

You need to be inside of the MagicMirror folder for that to work.

http://raspberrypi.tomasgreno.cz/ntp-client-and-server.html (just follow the client section.)