Unwanted files being backed up---TI Home 2010
Been using TI Home 2010 to only backup music and photo files to ext. drive---manually (nothing scheduled). Just put all my music into the cloud, so I formated ext. drive; deleted all listings of previous tasks (in Task Management), then created a new (manual) data backup task of only images (photos). (I did this by checking ONLY images on "What To Back Up" screen.) Backup completed, looked in Windows Explorer, and found that it had done what I had requested---but also had backed up music and documents, as well.
Thought that maybe I had 'mis-checked' an extra box, so I repeated the whole procedure over again (format, then creating a new backup task), with same result. How can I get it to only back up the photos in the "My Pictures" folders, and not do music or documents as well. It's almost like there's some memory of previous tasks that remains somewhere. I thought that I was pretty familiar with the steps to create a backup, because I've been doing it for years on a manual basis. But this has me lost. Any suggestions?
Grover, that's exactly what I've always done---use the category fields, and check what I want to backup. (I just used the example of "My Music" because in reality, that's all I want to back up.) For years, when I did my manual backups, I would tick the boxes for Images and Music, and everything would back up as I desired.
Now, when I first enter that screen, the My Documents box is already checked. I've unchecked that box, and only checked the Images box. But---now---after it completes the task and I look at what it backed up, it's done Images---but also Music and My Documents...just as if I had selected those boxes, as well. And I didn't.
I'm going to keep playing with it. Thanks.
when you first open a new task, nothing should be pre-checked.
Try creating your own special category for such things as "MyMusic" and point the target to the specific folder.
Special music cateogry
"My Music" folder points to (note the absence of "My")
c:\Users\Grover\Documents\Music
Special pictures category
"My Pictures" point to
c:\Users\Grover\Documents\Pictures
These two example will include contents of the folder--not based on file types.
Thanks, I've just created a new category in the Backup Wizard that only looks in the folder where I have all my images stored. That seemed to do the trick. Thanks for you assistance, and this issue is now closed. Dave