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Hi All
Just after some guidance on the best way to move my video files to an external drive
I am on a Laptop if it makes any difference (don't want Windows to have any issues if drive is not connected)
Currently stored in default location (C:\users\paul\videos) and will be moving them to e:\videos (USB Drive)
I would like to make the external location the default so that any new videos I put on go to the external drive, but also keep the C:\users\paul\videos folder there for me to manually use if need be
I see 2 ways of doing this
1) right click on videos in explorer and in the location tab there is a move option (I assume this moves everything to the new location and sets this as default?)
2) if I enable libraries, I can add the external drive as a video library, then set this as default for all new additions (think I would then just need to manually move my media across to new location)
Is there any difference in doing either of these (number 1 looks easiest, but would this cause issues if the drive is not connected?)
Hope the above makes sense
Thanks
Just after some guidance on the best way to move my video files to an external drive
I am on a Laptop if it makes any difference (don't want Windows to have any issues if drive is not connected)
Currently stored in default location (C:\users\paul\videos) and will be moving them to e:\videos (USB Drive)
I would like to make the external location the default so that any new videos I put on go to the external drive, but also keep the C:\users\paul\videos folder there for me to manually use if need be
I see 2 ways of doing this
1) right click on videos in explorer and in the location tab there is a move option (I assume this moves everything to the new location and sets this as default?)
2) if I enable libraries, I can add the external drive as a video library, then set this as default for all new additions (think I would then just need to manually move my media across to new location)
Is there any difference in doing either of these (number 1 looks easiest, but would this cause issues if the drive is not connected?)
Hope the above makes sense
Thanks
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Inspiron 3521
- CPU
- i5
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- AMD Radeon
- Browser
- IE