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| Guest | Backup to external drive Because a lot of high definition photos were backed up, the external drive is full. It is a 10gb Western Digital "My Book Essential Edition." So now I am getting Windows messages that automatic weekly backups are failing. How do I go about cleaning up the external drive so that there is space available for future backups? The future backups will not include photos (or very few). |
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| Guest | Re: Backup to external drive "Adrian" <Adrian@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:945230A2-76CB-426C-A3CE-A7DEF1AC0E34@xxxxxx Quote: > Because a lot of high definition photos were backed up, the external drive > is > full. It is a 10gb Western Digital "My Book Essential Edition." So now I > am > getting Windows messages that automatic weekly backups are failing. How do > I > go about cleaning up the external drive so that there is space available > for > future backups? The future backups will not include photos (or very few). Just remove the files you no longer want. If you don't want any removed, copy the images to optical disks (CD or DVD) in order to make space. I also have many photos in RAW format converted to TIFF files. I keep both versions of eachg photo and they take up a lot of space. I use a 500GB external drive as well as backing up the files to another external drive. If the photos are valuable to you, I suggest that you keep them backed up to a second drive. I know people who keep their photos on one drive and duplicate the backups to two other drives. |
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