PC File Hoarding

[BurnnBright]

I admit it.  I'm a hoarder.  I have a laptop and a desktop computer as well as 2 external hard drives.  Most of these are full.  Some of the files are duplicates and some are not.  I would like to get everything from the computers and hard drives all in one place, preferably on an external HD.  I don't want to buy another external hard drive if I can help it.  

 

What's the easiest way to do this?  Currently I am copying files from an external HD to my desktop because the desktop still has HD space which is taking a long time. I worry that I won't have enough space on the computer to get it all copied.   Once I get all of the files in one place, I will then go through an get rid of duplicates.  Somehow, I manage to save the same family photos over and over in different places.  If I could ever get things in one spot, I could see what I have duplicates of.  

 

Is there an easier way?  

[little_old_man]

Get two monster external hard drives and keep everything on them. You can get HD's with 2 terabytes or even bigger and it shold take you many years to fill up a couple terabytes of space with programs and pictures. Keep one at home with all of the family photo's on it, then use the other one as a back-up and keep it at the office or a friends/relatives house just in case your house burns down.

 

Family pictures are always a pain in the butt to organize. I've done the same thing as you, made copies of copies and had multiple files stored in 10 different places. Eventually I just took the time to organize things in file folders and organized them by date and subject. I have file folders for vacations, birthdays, holidays, etc, and within each file I have another file for each event organized by date. Set up your file folders first and then gradually take the existing pictures from your PC and put them in the proper folders. It's time consuming but a lot less work than organizing old-fashioned prints in a photo album.

 

  

[BurnnBright]

I think I may have more than 2 TB worth of files.  lol  However, I am certain that I can get rid of a lot of junk and duplicate files.  I have a 2 TB in my desktop computer.  I might temporarily move everything to that drive (if it all fits).  One of my external HD has 1.3 TB of data, another has 190 GB, desktop has 230 GB and I'm not sure about the laptop.   It's ridiculous to have this much data.  

 

I used to not keep any data much on my computer.  I saved everything to the external.  I liked it that way.  

 

I would really like to have something like this:

http://promotions.newegg.com/seagate/13-4368/index.html?icid=209925

[little_old_man]

Well then you might want to consider the 4 TB hard drive, or start compressing your files.  That's a ton of HD space you have already.

[Labob]

Google NAS

 

or Click here

 

no here not there http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=16&sel=Detail%3B293_368_65002_65002

 

Lots of options you can also just add HD to you Computer but I like the NAS solution

[J3st3r]

BB you still got my midget p0rn?

[GhostfaceJim]

Something to try is dupkiller.  It scans your drives and helps you get rid of all the duplicate files.

 

http://download.cnet.com/DupKiller/3000-2248_4-10487318.html

[KaptCrunch]

nas is the solution or  can build from an old system with network , by adding sata controller and HDD along with NAS software 

 

other is ole DOS commands  like xcopy

 

under win7 64bit in cmd box

 

powershell.exe xcopy c:\backupsource\*.* d:\backupdest\*.* /d /e /v /y <------CHECK SWITCHES BEFORE executing

Edited September 28, 2013 by KaptCrunch

[Labob]

He is right you can do this for free with an old machine does not need much , Look for http://www.freenas.org/ and maybe something like Plex to run your movies and such http://www.plexapp.com/ so many ways to do this so it's going to be you have to ask what you want to do with it all ? So I guess the question is what are all the files you have ?? And what do you want to do with them ? 

[LordOfChaos]

nas is the solution or  can build from an old system with network , by adding sata controller and HDD along with NAS software 

 

other is ole DOS commands  like xcopy

 

under win7 64bit in cmd box

 

powershell.exe xcopy c:\backupsource\*.* d:\backupdest\*.* /d /e /v /y <------CHECK SWITCHES BEFORE executing

 

I love the xcopy command... Overwrites copies and deletes from source so it all ends up in one place. Great idea krunch!

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[hxtr]

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[Tball]

Hxtr i have not heard of that program in years used to use that to copy backup directory's