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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 28, 2024 13:21:58 GMT -6
Anyone use this to free up some space on your main drive? Scared it's gonna screw things up...
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Post by tonycamphd on Oct 28, 2024 14:04:16 GMT -6
Anyone use this to free up some space on your main drive? Scared it's gonna screw things up... Hey JK, i bought an 18 terabyte WD external for about $250 a while back, dumped a whole bunch and hardly ever use it, main HD is beyond free and clear now.... Something like this |
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Post by wiz on Oct 28, 2024 14:06:40 GMT -6
I use it as a safety net for song backups
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 28, 2024 14:15:27 GMT -6
Anyone use this to free up some space on your main drive? Scared it's gonna screw things up... Hey JK, i bought an 18 terabyte WD external for about $250 a while back, dumped a whole bunch and hardly ever use it, main HD is beyond free and clear now.... Something like thisThis is my 512GB boot drive. So I don't have a ton of superflous stuff on there. But putting my 12GB of document folder in the cloud would be a niuce addition of space. I think I did this on one computer one time and it was a freaking nightmare. |
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Oct 28, 2024 14:21:06 GMT -6
Every time I have allowed Apple to do this something has gotten screwed up. Either my drive somehow got MORE full or something got deleted in the cloud because I trashed it from my desktop or some other weird thing.
I'm totally sure it's user error, but I've made enough errors that I don't touch it.
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Post by tonycamphd on Oct 28, 2024 14:24:05 GMT -6
Hey JK, i bought an 18 terabyte WD external for about $250 a while back, dumped a whole bunch and hardly ever use it, main HD is beyond free and clear now.... Something like thisThis is my 512GB boot drive. So I don't have a ton of superflous stuff on there. But putting my 12GB of document folder in the cloud would be a niuce addition of space. I think I did this on one computer one time and it was a freaking nightmare. thats probably because upload speeds on most internet connects really suck, just get a small cheap external drive and dump the doc folder over to it hardwire style(takes minutes), great place to back up pics, vids and other big file stuff as well |
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 28, 2024 14:30:46 GMT -6
This is my 512GB boot drive. So I don't have a ton of superflous stuff on there. But putting my 12GB of document folder in the cloud would be a niuce addition of space. I think I did this on one computer one time and it was a freaking nightmare. thats probably because upload speeds on most internet connects really suck, just get a small cheap external drive and dump the doc folder over to it hardwire style(takes minutes), great place to back up pics, vids and other big file stuff as well Do you have to point it anywhere, though? Like does disk allocation to the documents folder get messed up? I've got a gig up and down, so that's not a problem. I honestly can't remember what the issue was, but I think it had to do with files not being located or something. |
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Post by tonycamphd on Oct 28, 2024 15:07:53 GMT -6
thats probably because upload speeds on most internet connects really suck, just get a small cheap external drive and dump the doc folder over to it hardwire style(takes minutes), great place to back up pics, vids and other big file stuff as well Do you have to point it anywhere, though? Like does disk allocation to the documents folder get messed up? I've got a gig up and down, so that's not a problem. I honestly can't remember what the issue was, but I think it had to do with files not being located or something. not sure what you mean here, if its just a documents folder it shouldn't interfere, you could always put essentials back after the move. I just plug the external HD in via usb and drag and drop the space taking folder to the external HD and let it copy over, then i open it from the external HD to verify its there, then i compress the space taker folder on by main HD and save that to the external HD as well, then after i verify both are on the external, i dump the main HD space taking folder to trash, before i empty trash i open the external folder one more time, then empty trash lol(because im scared just like you 8) |
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Post by ericn on Oct 28, 2024 15:27:01 GMT -6
It’s the backup, to the backup of my backup. As others have stated something is always f>¥}ed up, but it’s included with my phone, iTunes etc, so it’s a last resort.
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 28, 2024 15:52:39 GMT -6
Do you have to point it anywhere, though? Like does disk allocation to the documents folder get messed up? I've got a gig up and down, so that's not a problem. I honestly can't remember what the issue was, but I think it had to do with files not being located or something. not sure what you mean here, if its just a documents folder it shouldn't interfere, you could always put essentials back after the move. I just plug the external HD in via usb and drag and drop the space taking folder to the external HD and let it copy over, then i open it from the external HD to verify its there, then i compress the space taker folder on by main HD and save that to the external HD as well, then after i verify both are on the external, i dump the main HD space taking folder to trash, before i empty trash i open the external folder one more time, then empty trash lol(because im scared just like you 8) OK - cool. I need to consolidate some of my drives. I've already got 5 externals...so I've got a place to put it. |
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Post by doubledog on Oct 29, 2024 9:21:28 GMT -6
whatever you do, don't rely on cloud backup as your only copy. Keep multiple copies of your data. most "consumer" cloud applications (like iCloud, Dropbox, etc) have fine print that basically says "if we lose your data, too bad. you won't get it back and you can't sue us". Obviously I have paraphrased from legalese, but it's there. You have to pay for commercial level backup to get anything safer (and even then I would not rely on a single copy).
when I use a cloud provider (google, onedrive, dropbox, Wetransfer, etc) to transfer files to anyone I always "zip" the files. if you download them and they unzip without error then you know they did not get corrupted. FTP and HTTP/HTTPS as a protocol actually do not have any error correction or checking built in (at the file level) so they can't tell you if your file was uploaded or downloaded correctly. You have to zip it or use something like an MD5 hash (more complicated) to check it.
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Post by seawell on Oct 29, 2024 11:19:31 GMT -6
@johnkenn, one thing to consider is that Pro Tools stores some pre-sets in that documents folder so when I had iCloud back up turned on sometimes plug-in presets wouldn't show up until I found where they were in the documents folder and clicked on the cloud icon to re-download them to the computer. It was pretty annoying so I ended up turning iCloud back up off.
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