External hard drive software
Greetings,
I just bought an external hard drive, Maxtor 160 gb for my G5 Imac. I haven't done this before but I plan on moving my wife's 7000 photos and my 3000 songs over as backup. Is there a software program anyone can recommend that will automatically move all new files from itunes and iphoto once a week without me having to do anything after setting it up?
thanks, don
Is the paid version worth buying for a lightweight computer user like me?
Absolutely!
Without paying the shareware fee, it works, but it will simply backup everything evertime.
Registration allows you to do a "Smart backup", which will replace only changed files, saving a LOT of time.
Also, you can select specific folders whcih you do not want/need to be backed up.
Oh yeah, I used 114 gigabytes on my new hard drive, I have no idea on what.
A lot of stuff is not actually deleted in iDVD and iMovie so you need to make sure you empty the trash in those apps.
I cleared up like 20 GBs of space.
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