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<blockquote data-quote="pulp3au" data-source="post: 1768062" data-attributes="member: 273366"><p>@Slydude Not sure how helpful I can be since it's been a long time since I've done a backup so there's a lot of new files and altered files all over the place that I'm afraid I've been very disorgansied about keeping track of them. But, from what I can tell:</p><p></p><p>1. About 1.5 TB of data is involved, though not all of this will be data I do not want to copy over, but a lot will be.</p><p></p><p>2. I could only guess, but I'd say about 70% or 60% is new data that would need to be copied across, but I haven't kept track of what I've changed so I'm not sure - it could just be 50% new data to be copied across and 50% not to be copied across overwriting existing data that is correct and unaltered, or 60%/40%, and so on,.</p><p></p><p>3. No, I don't need to keep the different versions of the data around on my internal hard drive, in fact I intend to delete all altered data from my hard drive by simply deleting en masse the folders I've copied across to my internal drive from my external drive and also deleting the now backed up new files. (I've decided that it's best to keep the files as I bought them and archive them that way, since I could have made mistakes when fooling around with the files I'd copied off the external drive - that's not the same for all the new files, which are of different types of data, mostly software setup files I've bought along with such things as some ripped vinyl music from my vinyl record collection, but the altered ones are either music files I've created by ripping my vinyl collection or bought music files in high definition (high resolution - greater than CD quality) which is why they're so big (sampling rates of 24bit/192 kHz for instance for an entire album containing maybe 12 or even more songs which all add up at about 100 MB each song, and which I simply want to add to the right folders on the external drive which need updating with the new files leaving the ones already on the external drive but altered on my internal drive unchanged on the external drive). Once the folders on my hard drive are copied across to the external drive with this updating the same named folders on that drive with these new files which belong in those folders to update the folders and keep them up to date, I don't want the new files to be changed and the not copied altered files added by a further copy over to the external drive - I just want to update the existing folders on the external hard drive with the new files that need to be added and haven't been altered but are just new, and leave out copying across any files on my hard drive that are in folders with the same name as the folders on my external drive that have in fact been changed on my internal drive and are not new, unaltered files. If that makes any sense. I'm sorry to be so confusing. It's so difficult to explain. And I've been quite negligent in updating these external drive folders with the new content I've bought or ripped etc and have been very careless in keeping track of what files I experimented with changing their meta-data etc. I've left it far too long to update these folders I've created on my external drive containing all the stuff I've bought, created etc. - plus I've created in those folders on my external drive sub-folders to identify where I've bought the stuff or what artist/band they belong to or what genre they belong to and so on and used those sub-folders to contain the data. So it gets complex. Maybe it's not possible to do this. I don't know. I do now that the files have added up over time because I've neglected to update them on the external drive (that is, the folders that contain files of the type I do want to copy over and want the ones I've avoided copying over to not be copied over the existing same named files). My own fault, together with being very sick recently and being unable to to all this updating for months.</p><p></p><p>I wish I could be clearer and of more help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pulp3au, post: 1768062, member: 273366"] @Slydude Not sure how helpful I can be since it's been a long time since I've done a backup so there's a lot of new files and altered files all over the place that I'm afraid I've been very disorgansied about keeping track of them. But, from what I can tell: 1. About 1.5 TB of data is involved, though not all of this will be data I do not want to copy over, but a lot will be. 2. I could only guess, but I'd say about 70% or 60% is new data that would need to be copied across, but I haven't kept track of what I've changed so I'm not sure - it could just be 50% new data to be copied across and 50% not to be copied across overwriting existing data that is correct and unaltered, or 60%/40%, and so on,. 3. No, I don't need to keep the different versions of the data around on my internal hard drive, in fact I intend to delete all altered data from my hard drive by simply deleting en masse the folders I've copied across to my internal drive from my external drive and also deleting the now backed up new files. (I've decided that it's best to keep the files as I bought them and archive them that way, since I could have made mistakes when fooling around with the files I'd copied off the external drive - that's not the same for all the new files, which are of different types of data, mostly software setup files I've bought along with such things as some ripped vinyl music from my vinyl record collection, but the altered ones are either music files I've created by ripping my vinyl collection or bought music files in high definition (high resolution - greater than CD quality) which is why they're so big (sampling rates of 24bit/192 kHz for instance for an entire album containing maybe 12 or even more songs which all add up at about 100 MB each song, and which I simply want to add to the right folders on the external drive which need updating with the new files leaving the ones already on the external drive but altered on my internal drive unchanged on the external drive). Once the folders on my hard drive are copied across to the external drive with this updating the same named folders on that drive with these new files which belong in those folders to update the folders and keep them up to date, I don't want the new files to be changed and the not copied altered files added by a further copy over to the external drive - I just want to update the existing folders on the external hard drive with the new files that need to be added and haven't been altered but are just new, and leave out copying across any files on my hard drive that are in folders with the same name as the folders on my external drive that have in fact been changed on my internal drive and are not new, unaltered files. If that makes any sense. I'm sorry to be so confusing. It's so difficult to explain. And I've been quite negligent in updating these external drive folders with the new content I've bought or ripped etc and have been very careless in keeping track of what files I experimented with changing their meta-data etc. I've left it far too long to update these folders I've created on my external drive containing all the stuff I've bought, created etc. - plus I've created in those folders on my external drive sub-folders to identify where I've bought the stuff or what artist/band they belong to or what genre they belong to and so on and used those sub-folders to contain the data. So it gets complex. Maybe it's not possible to do this. I don't know. I do now that the files have added up over time because I've neglected to update them on the external drive (that is, the folders that contain files of the type I do want to copy over and want the ones I've avoided copying over to not be copied over the existing same named files). My own fault, together with being very sick recently and being unable to to all this updating for months. I wish I could be clearer and of more help. [/QUOTE]
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