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I have an Advent usb splitter with 4 ports which is connected to a usb port on my PC. When i start up windows 8.1, typically, I'll have a mouse & 1 external drive connected & my 2 printers connected to the usb splitter although the printers themselves may not be switched on. During my login...

Thanks for the explanation. Although I can understand that this is a background process & therefore doesn't give a status, this is very user unfriendly. Telling a PC novice to keep checking Task Manager isn't a good way of doing things. I did use another method & that is to check the...

I'm running File History for the 1st to backup files to an external drive. How do I know that it has finished? More details follow. On the file history window, I see the message: File History is saving copies of your files for the first time. Yet there is no status telling me how this...

Many thanks for the reply. The reason I crashed into this problem was that I had forgotten that I had played with File History on another PC. I will close this question.:)

File History status info on 1st time save I'm running File History for the 1st to backup files to an external drive. How do I know that it has finished. More details follow. On the file history window, I see the message: File History is saving copies of your files for the first time. Yet...

FileHistory using 1 external drive for 2 PCs This is a question possible limitations of File History. I don't want a fix, just to know what File History can & can't do. I have 2 PCs & one external drive. I may want to use File History on each PC to backup to the same drive. I would backing...

Many thanks for your reply, but I've now File History to work, but I have to say I'm not too sure what I did to fix it! None of the advice I've seen on the web helped me. So, I'll document here how I fixed it because it might help somebody else. Although File History gave me the error 'We...

I have an external drive connected via USB to my laptop. I have selected a drive to write to, but when I run File History, I see the errors: We can't copy your files to this locations Failed to complete migration to H:\ (error 80040507) I know that I have write access to this drive because...