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I've been in my position at work for quite a few years now. In that time I've saved a few files on the computer with my personal stuff. It's looking like I'm going to start job hunting in the next few months and before I begin I want to get my stuff off this computer and move it to mine at home.
I've got documents, pdf files, photos, spreadsheets, etc. It's a ton of info in all different formats so just e-mailing them to myself one at a time - or even 10 at a time - would take forever.
Other than bringing in a external hard drive or a ton of flash drives, is there an easy way to move everything? E-mailing is fine if there's a way to 'zip' all the files in one, I"m just not sure how to do that.
Zip is a type of compressing. It makes files smaller and can put multiple files inside a single zip archive, but certain file types such as photos won't compress. How many gigabytes worth of files do you need to move? An external hard drive is the fastest in most cases. Online options include Dropbox and Skydrive but if you have a lot of stuff and the upload speed is slow, it'll take forever
Zip is a type of compressing. It makes files smaller and can put multiple files inside a single zip archive, but certain file types such as photos won't compress. How many gigabytes worth of files do you need to move? An external hard drive is the fastest in most cases. Online options include Dropbox and Skydrive but if you have a lot of stuff and the upload speed is slow, it'll take forever
Photos I can move to a photo bucket account I guess. That's not as big a deal. And I've probably got a good bit of photos on here I don't even need anymore.
I have no clue how many gigs I've got on here. Any clue how I can find out?
I need an external hard drive at home anyway for our photos and videos. I guess the smart thing to do is just go get one and be done with it.
Right click, properties on a folder and it'll tell you how big it is, including anything in subfolders. I believe Photobucket limits you to 1024x768 resolution on the pictures you upload which is pretty low quality. Its OK for web viewing, but I wouldn't want that to be my only copy. Get the USB drive, backup your work stuff, bring it home and put it on your home PC. Then use the drive to backup your home PC. Remember, you always want at least two copies of anything important.
Is it a few files or a ton of data? The original post says both.
It probably isn't as many Gb as you think unless there are videos.
I would caution you in the future to NEVER rely on a business computer as a holding place for your personal data. You probably have no legal right whatsoever to that computer if by chance you were fired. You may already be violating a company policy by storing personal data on the computer. People do it all the time - but the company can deny you the right to acess the computer right before you leave.
I would size the data, and probably use USB drives. While you are moving data to the USB drives - I would DELETE them from the computer. If you want the photos at work - access them off the USB drive instead of your hard drive.
You can get an 8GB flash drive for under $25. That should take care of it. Move everything onto that, transfer to another computer if needed, delete, clean drive, do it again, etc.
Or buy a couple. They're small and cheap.
Open My Computer, Local Disk C, Documents and Settings (or Users if running Vista), Your Username. Right Chick on My Documents and select Properties to find out how big that folder is. Then you'll know what kind of storage requirement you have.
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