Hi Abu baniaz , Sorry for not being clear in my posting , indeed what I should have written was "update" and not "upgrade", in reality what I did due to having lost a plugin for 28 e (forget what the correct label was) when I updated to Hades 018,
I restored Hades 016 using Backup Manager which re installed the missing Plugin but caused the problem with my FTP not active as described in my first post. I then carried out (2a) Flash Hades 018 by USB but again lost the fore mentioned plugin. What I was looking for was how to restore the plugins and from where ? The plugin I was looking for isn't available in the "Add Plugins" . Thanks for replying.