We're going on vacation tomorrow and we want to back up all of our personal photos on my father's laptop onto an external hard drive he bought in case something was to happen to his laptop. Obviously, you can open each individual and re-save it into the hard drive. Seeing as we have hundreds, even thousands of photos, that's not the most practical way. ;)
So how can we back them up, folder by folder? 10 points for best answer. =)
Browni
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Right click on the top most folder and select send to (external drive) whatever it's called. That will copy everything in that folder (including subfolders) to the external drive.
Indy G
Just click on one folder and then hold down the control key and click on all the folders, then just right click and select 'Copy' and then browse to the external hard drive and select 'Paste'. If you have thousands of pics it will take some time no matter what.
golfer2
Make sure the external is turned on and windows has recognized it.Just click a folder,choose copy this folder in the left column, then choose the external device.
Anonymous
you don't need to open the files in your photo software. just open windows explorer and right-click on the files and folders you want, then make sure the external drive is connected and navigate there with inside windows explorer. then right click and select paste. that will copy the files over to the external drive.
capoccia
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