Open Seagate External Hard Drive Case
Is saving a file on an external Hard Drive as well as to transfer the file?
I just bought a Seagate 500GB Disk external hard today to store 16 GB of video files that I stored on my laptop. When I open the Seagate Manager I can save files by clicking on the custom backup, then Personal Folders. I wondered if "Backup" is Just as the "transfer" in this case. If not, how do I transfer my video files on the hard drive (I want to release the memory on my computer portable by transferring an external device and the computer file deletion)? I appreciate any advice you can offer. Thank you both for having answered!
Unfortunately "back up" is a word that has no precise meaning. You can get a program that makes a "backup" by simply Copy files to another drive or location. If a second backup program allows you to convert all files into a single compressed file rendering unusable on the new drive. All you can do to restore that kind of backup the old disk. So, without seeing and test your program, I can not answer the question. But I can say that you want to do. Do it yourself by hand rather than trust the backup program. Find videos you want to move, and copy the second disk. Then go and confirm that they are on the second drive and work. Finally back on the first disc and delete. So, you know exactly what happened is what you wanted. In addition, most backup programs will only copy the files, they do not delete the original. So even with a backup program, you would still have to confirm the working files and the second disk, then delete them from the first. Safer just to do it yourself.