A Rainy Computer Maintenance Day

I bought a couple of "My Passport" external drives a few days ago so I could backup all my years and years of files and photos. I had these files strewn across numerous external drives and I recently started to have problems with one of these drives. It was time to upgrade.

These 2 terabyte "My Passport" drives arrived a few days ago... I immediately started copying all the files from all these drives... then, yesterday, I backed up this new drive onto a second "My Passport" drive. 

This morning, I randomly checked the drives to ensure everything copied accurately... it all looked good. Then came the scary part... deleting files on my computer which I had already backed-up redundantly on these two new drives. 

This process of deleting took much more time than I had anticipated but it resulted in freeing up about 75% of my desktop computer's hard drive. After freeing up all this disk space, I ran a registry cleaner to tie up all the lose ends.

The result is a much more responsive computer and having the piece of mind that all my files (ten year's worth of photos, videos, documents, music, artwork, etc) are backed up on two external disks. As if that isn't enough, I also have an online subscription which constantly backs up my desktop computer to the cloud just in case my computer suddenly stops functioning.

It's always nice when a plan comes together! (as eloquently said by Colonel Hannibal Smith at the end of every 'A-Team' mission)