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Minimum Syntaxing
Oct 29, 2008

He looks white, but he's the son of a black man!
So I got this external HD early this year, and I only back my stuff up on it every few months.
Problem #1 is, this WD SmartWare program it came with seemed to nest my files into a folder with a long gibberish name. Anyways I think that caused some of my files to not be backed up, because their path became too long.

Problem #2 might only have to do with how I've resorted to clicking and dragging my files because of problem #1: The subfolders or files that I've since renamed on my internal HD leave me with extra copies in my external because well... I guess the word for it is they don't replace the local backup? Like, I just want the selected folders on my external to mirror the ones on my internal.

Also since I will only be plugging my external in inconsistently every few months (to try and keep the wear & tear down), I don't have any need for automatic/scheduled backup stuff.

So is there any free programs around that can do this?

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Minimum Syntaxing
Oct 29, 2008

He looks white, but he's the son of a black man!

Flipperwaldt posted:

SyncBack Free.
Thanks, looks like "synchronization" was the word I was thinking of then.

Flipperwaldt posted:

Saving on wear and tear with harddrives is barely a thing afaik.
Ah, that so? I got the idea from a friend, seemed to make sense. Either way I use that extra USB port for a gamepad anyway.

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