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I keep all my music on a Samsung portable SSD external drive. I have another as a backup.
I've been adding music for the past several months, and now need to transfer all the new material -- which is all mixed in with old music in appropriate file folders (by artist) -- to the backup SSD drive.
I keep all my music on a Samsung portable SSD external drive. I have another as a backup.
I've been adding music for the past several months, and now need to transfer all the new material -- which is all mixed in with old music in appropriate file folders (by artist) -- to the backup SSD drive.
What's the best way to accomplish this.
I know it's a dumb question!
First, it is a PC or Mac?
I don't know about the PC, but on the Mac you can do it in several ways, including as a Time Machine backup, or a CCC or SuperDuper "clone" of backup, or even manually by dragging files and folders to wherever you want.
The simplest way to do it assuming same folder/file structures are the same (Artist >> Album >> Song) is select everything on main drive and copy to backup drive. e.g. if top directory is the artists select all of them and then copy, paste into the directory that contains the albums on other drive. This may take longer than normal copy/paste to "calculate". After it does it's thing you'll get prompt that files with same name exist on destination, select skip these files.
If you want to automate this look into windows backup options.
paste into the directory that contains the albums on other drive.
That should read artists from my post above.
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