A quick check of the Costco web site shows that most, if not all show desktops having 1 or 2 terabytes on their hard drive, your 1.6 gb of pictures would take up negligible space. That being said, I have all my pictures on an external hard drive for safety's sake in case of a disk failure. I also burn a DVD of all my pictures every six months or so to keep my daughter up to date on the picture files. Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of mack165@juno.com Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:24 PM To: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com; COMPUTER-HELP@rootsweb.com Subject: [GN] advice external harddrive? I know I should buy a new computer(desktop) since I am using my older XP. I have 1.6 GB's of pictures on my computer. Wondering if I bought an external hard drive( or a flash drive) would it make sense to store all my pictures on it and would it free up 1.6 GB of memory??Thanks, John ____________________________________________________________ Never Eat This Carb Literally Never! 1 Easy Tip to Increase Fat Burning, Lower Blood Sugar http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/5320ecb0516646cb06758st04vuc ******************** Gen-Newbie's website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Wayne, I am not your correspondent but you have reminded me of a question I need to ask:what is meant to "burn a DVD? My computer skill is next to non-existent and info on web is tech-type. Thank you for any consideration you may give to directing me to very simple source of information. Rana > On Mar 12, 2014, at 7:47 PM, "Wayne Jones" <jonesr007@hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > > A quick check of the Costco web site shows that most, if not all show > desktops having 1 or 2 terabytes on their hard drive, your 1.6 gb of > pictures would take up negligible space. That being said, I have all my > pictures on an external hard drive for safety's sake in case of a disk > failure. I also burn a DVD of all my pictures every six months or so to > keep my daughter up to date on the picture files. > > Aloha > Wayne, NH6K > > -----Original Message----- > From: gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of mack165@juno.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:24 PM > To: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com; COMPUTER-HELP@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GN] advice external harddrive? > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ******************** > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Wayne I have been wondering. Im about to back up to a external hard drive. I lot of photos will be backed up again. I have added more to the folders. Should I just delete the ones I have on the external H D because they will be added again on this back up? Regards, Jerrie On 3/12/2014 7:47 PM, Wayne Jones wrote: > A quick check of the Costco web site shows that most, if not all show > desktops having 1 or 2 terabytes on their hard drive, your 1.6 gb of > pictures would take up negligible space. That being said, I have all my > pictures on an external hard drive for safety's sake in case of a disk > failure. I also burn a DVD of all my pictures every six months or so to > keep my daughter up to date on the picture files. > > Aloha > Wayne, NH6K > > -----Original Message----- > From: gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of mack165@juno.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:24 PM > To: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com; COMPUTER-HELP@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GN] advice external harddrive? > > I know I should buy a new computer(desktop) since I am using my older XP. I > have 1.6 GB's of pictures on my computer. Wondering if I bought an external > hard drive( or a flash drive) would it make sense to store all my pictures > on it and would it free up 1.6 GB of memory??Thanks, John > ____________________________________________________________ > Never Eat This Carb > Literally Never! 1 Easy Tip to Increase Fat Burning, Lower Blood Sugar > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/5320ecb0516646cb06758st04vuc > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

If you have enough room on the drive, I would copy/backup all the files/folders and when you are sure the copy was successful, delete the old files. Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jerrie Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 2:30 PM To: gen-newbie@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GN] advice external hard drive? Wayne I have been wondering. Im about to back up to a external hard drive. I lot of photos will be backed up again. I have added more to the folders. Should I just delete the ones I have on the external H D because they will be added again on this back up? Regards, Jerrie On 3/12/2014 7:47 PM, Wayne Jones wrote: > A quick check of the Costco web site shows that most, if not all show > desktops having 1 or 2 terabytes on their hard drive, your 1.6 gb of > pictures would take up negligible space. That being said, I have all > my pictures on an external hard drive for safety's sake in case of a > disk failure. I also burn a DVD of all my pictures every six months > or so to keep my daughter up to date on the picture files. > > Aloha > Wayne, NH6K > > -----Original Message----- > From: gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:gen-newbie-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of mack165@juno.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:24 PM > To: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com; COMPUTER-HELP@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GN] advice external harddrive? > > I know I should buy a new computer(desktop) since I am using my older > XP. I have 1.6 GB's of pictures on my computer. Wondering if I bought > an external hard drive( or a flash drive) would it make sense to store > all my pictures on it and would it free up 1.6 GB of memory??Thanks, > John ____________________________________________________________ > Never Eat This Carb > Literally Never! 1 Easy Tip to Increase Fat Burning, Lower Blood Sugar > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/5320ecb0516646cb06758st04vuc > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ******************** Gen-Newbie's website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message