Intense Blue318
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What's up everyone? I think I got this in the right section, but I'm sure a mod will move it if not. I'm having an issue with the new File History (sure do miss the windows 7 backup) thing in 8.1. I've searched all over the interweb for the past 2 hours and haven't found anything helpful.
Basically when I tell File History to run it says it's updating for a minute or two, then says it's done, but it doesn't actually back up anything at all. I have it set to backup to my 750GB external drive (connected via esata) which is solely for backups. The only files that show up on it are the configuration files.
Here's the setup I'm working with:
HP DV7-4285dx laptop with > 2 week old fresh 8.1 install
SanDisk 256GB SSD (C: internal; for OSs and installed programs only)
Samsung 1TB HDD (D: internal; for data only)
Sandisk 750GB HDD (G: external over esata; for backup)
I'm suspecting the problem might have something to do with the fact that I have all of my documents, music, etc. folders redirected (changed the targets of all of the folders in my user directory to D:\Users\Matt\...) to my D: drive instead of them being on the C: drive.
I am a computer engineering student, so don't be afraid to be technical, all of this Windows 8.1 stuff is just a bit new to me.
Thanks in advance.
Basically when I tell File History to run it says it's updating for a minute or two, then says it's done, but it doesn't actually back up anything at all. I have it set to backup to my 750GB external drive (connected via esata) which is solely for backups. The only files that show up on it are the configuration files.
Here's the setup I'm working with:
HP DV7-4285dx laptop with > 2 week old fresh 8.1 install
SanDisk 256GB SSD (C: internal; for OSs and installed programs only)
Samsung 1TB HDD (D: internal; for data only)
Sandisk 750GB HDD (G: external over esata; for backup)
I'm suspecting the problem might have something to do with the fact that I have all of my documents, music, etc. folders redirected (changed the targets of all of the folders in my user directory to D:\Users\Matt\...) to my D: drive instead of them being on the C: drive.
I am a computer engineering student, so don't be afraid to be technical, all of this Windows 8.1 stuff is just a bit new to me.
Thanks in advance.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 & Ubuntu 12.04LTS (on laptop)
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- AMD FX-6300
- Motherboard
- Biostar TA970
- Memory
- Team Elite 8GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- XFX Radeon R7-260x 2GB
- Sound Card
- AMD True Audio
- Hard Drives
- 500GB Samsung for OS and programs
1TB Western Digital for data
- Case
- Raidmax Horus
- Cooling
- many many fans
- Internet Speed
- depends where I am