Backing up Documents Folder

[Pivco]

My mother's Documents Folder is about 350MB. Her flash drive is 512 MB. I
backed up her Document Folder to her empty flash drive. I then tried to show
her how to do the same thing, this time it said that there wasn't enough room
on the drive. I don't understand why Vista did not give an option to
overwrite the Folder.

I then formatted her flash drive and tried backing up again and it worked
fine. But then, when I tried to back up again (now that the flash drive had
the 350MB folder on it), it again told me that there wasn't enough room and
did not give me the option to just overwrite.

Any idea why this is happening?

 

[SG]

Pivco,

Try this....
Format the drive again and then open Explorer. When you select the Documents
folder do NOT copy it to the drive, instead select the Edit-Select all
option then Edit Copy and finally Edit Paste. When finished try it again and
see if it prompts you to overwrite.

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All the best,
SG

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[Pivco]

SG,

Even if this works, why would the computer not give me the *option* to
overwrite the folder and/or the files in the folder?

Pivco

 

[Gary Mount]

Is your second backup an incremental backup or a full backup?

 

[SG]

I think Gary Mount hit on something I missed. What are you using to backup
with? I assumed you were using Explore to Drag/Drop, if not my apologies.

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All the best,
SG

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https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/

 

[Pivco]

I did it one of the following two ways. I can't remember which one.

(1) I clicked on "Start" and then right clicked on "Documents" and chose
"Send To" and then chose the flash drive.
or
(2) I opened up a window for the flash drive and then dragged the
"Documents" folder from the "Start Menu" into this window.

 

[SG]

OK, try what I suggested and see if it works. Why coping the "Documents"
folder over then trying to overwrite don't work I'm not sure, but I've ran
into the same problem and the way I suggested did work for me, so worth a
try. BTW, SyncToy v1.4 from MS may be a better way to do this but, I can't
remember if it works with USB drives, You'll have to read up on this. If so,
it will only copy over new and changed files making it much faster and no
prompts.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...54-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7&displaylang=en

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All the best,
SG

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https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/