Originally Posted by
Haseo
I attempted copying and pasting all the files in my Desktop computer to back them up.
Why?
(basically, go into C: and selecting the first item in the list (.jagex_cache_32) and then holding shift, scrolling to the bottom and pressing the last item to select everything then right click > copy.)
It seems the total sum of the size of all the files in C: is roughly 500 GB.
This is the size of your hard drive and not the sum of all of the files.
However, after hitting paste to put the files in the appropriate external HDD, it says 'discovering files' for a rather long time until it eventually starts transferring only a total of 80.2 GB worth of files.
For how many files you are copying this is normal.
THIS DOES NOT REFER TO TRANSFER RATE (honestly, how would one get that high of a transfer rate?). 80.2 GB refers to TOTAL SIZE of files discovered. This puzzles me because:
1) the external HDD is a new one and has 1 TB total capacity
2) the computer's internal HDD is not at maximum capacity
3) I basically selected everything, but it is only choosing to copy and paste some files.
Some files are protected.
Can anyone help? Why is this happening, how do I get around it, are there any faster solutions to backing up my data? (even just the estimated copying time for 80.2 gb was already 4 days).
Why is what?
You don't.
Yes, back up less garbage and more necessary stuff.
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