Copying My Documents

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I am running Windows XP and I have 30 folders in My Documents and I would
like to back them up to an external hard drive. Is there a way for me to
select all of these folders so that they can be copied all at once?

Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
Ron J. said:
I am running Windows XP and I have 30 folders in My Documents and I would
like to back them up to an external hard drive. Is there a way for me to
select all of these folders so that they can be copied all at once?

Any help would be greatly appreciated
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A really easy way to back these up is to use something like Backup Plus, and
tell it to back up My Documents and subfolders. You can also tell it to do
incremental rather than full backups. This will also compress the files so
the backup image takes less space; because the backup format is actually a
ZIP file, it's pretty reliable and easily accessed.

www.backupplus.net


HTH
-pk
 
Ron said:
I am running Windows XP and I have 30 folders in My Documents and I would
like to back them up to an external hard drive. Is there a way for me to
select all of these folders so that they can be copied all at once?

Any help would be greatly appreciated
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copy and paste the "my documents folder"
or
go into "my documents" folder, Highlight All 30 folders[1] , and copy
and paste. Choose "Yes to all" at any prompts
or
use xcopy and thus avoid any prompts.

[1]
click one of them. hold shift and press teh down or right arrows.
or
click (not on a file, but outside of one) and drag making a box shape,
a faint box will appear anything in that box will be selected. As an
exmaple of this faint box, try it on yuor desktop.

To Deselect a few of the ones that you selected. Looking at the
selected block of icons, hold control and click the ones to deselect


to copy and paste, do edit..copy, edit..paste
You can do CTRL+C CTRL+V instead. I tend to do that for text. But for
files, I prefer to use the menu - to be firm and clear.
Traditionally, in Win 3.1 , one would've gone to file manager and done
something like file..copy
 
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