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1219371 2011-07-26 21:08:00 I am about to connect an external hard drive to my computer and need to know how I can make it target folders such as My Pictures etc that I want to migrate to it.

Any help welcome thanks.


pburt
pburt (1226)
1219372 2011-07-26 22:32:00 A word of advice: DON'T move all your data to an external drive, leave everything where it is and just make a copy/backup of the data on the external hard drive.
For some reason people seem to think that because it is an external hard drive it won't fail but they will fail just like any internal hard drive will.
We get a lot of failed external hard drives in the workshop that people have been using as their only storage for their data rather than just as a backup and they are very upset when they find out they have lost everything.
CYaBro (73)
1219373 2011-07-26 22:40:00 I'm with CYaBro. Copy data to it weekly instead ...

But still, in answer to your question, simply right-click on My Documents, under Properties, you can adjust the settings in there.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1219374 2011-07-26 23:50:00 And then just use something like Syncback free or synctoy free to back them up on schedule gary67 (56)
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