Too long since connecting the backup drive, and I see that my laptop drive's File History cache has filled up with files from the media drive. I often connect the media drive without connecting the backup drive. One thing I've seen is that I have documents on my laptop hard drive, media on an external drive, and the File History backup on a 2nd external drive. Most of my documents aren't duplicated in backups, but here and there there are identical copies backed up. The hash sumsįor the duplicate backup files are exactly the same. It's especially a problem with media, but many of the files it backs up I don't so much as navigate to in File Explorer in between backups. I also have this problem, and I don't use 3rd party defragmenters, just the automatic built-in one. Microsoft Community, and went unanswered.
Why is File History saving so many duplicate copies of my media, when I'm not making any changes to the media or metadata?!? Removing older versions does not give me much of a backup, since if something happened, I could not roll back to known good versions. This is becoming a serious problem, because my external hard drive is now full, and my only option is to remove the older versions of the files.
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The only thing I can think of is Windows Indexing? I'm not manually re-indexing, but I'm also not modifying these files either, and yet something is triggering File History to re-back them up. Is Windows Indexing somehow causing this? Maybe something with thumbs.db? Although, I do not think this is causing the issue. Note: I did create several custom libraries, in order for File History to backup all of my data, including data that is outside the normal libraries.
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Has anybody had problems with excessive backup in Windows 8 File History? Is it possible that looking at the pictures/videos could also be somehow modifying the file in such a way? I've seen it do this on the same day that the drive was connected earlier and copies were saved!
To keep saving copies of your files, reconnect your drive and then run a backup." I've been using Windows 8 File History to back up my libraries, but Windows 8 keeps saying "Reconnect your drive" and "Your File History drive was disconnected for too long.
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