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gehan
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      08-15-2007
without telling me vista was backing up my files onto my second hard drive.
slowly i noticed the hard drive space deminish. when i worked out why i
stopped the automatic backup. however i am unable to locate the location of
the backup files. and all the wizard tells me is that is was saving it to
that drive. from the outside it says only 2gb left. but when i group all
including hidden and click properties there should be 20gb left. this defecit
of space is where i think the backup files have gone. can anyone tell me how
to locate these.

thanks
 
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John Hanley
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      08-15-2007
On your second hard drive, you should see a folder with the name of your
computer; within that folder, you should see one or more folders with a name
like "Backup Set 2007-08-10". Within that folder, you should see one or
more folders with the name like "Backup Files 2007-08-10". Your backed up
files are contained within these folders. You can delete the oldest of the
Backup Files folders to get back your space, retaining the more recent
folders for your current backup. At least that is the way mine works (Vista
Home Premium). Hope this helps.

"gehan" <> wrote in message
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> without telling me vista was backing up my files onto my second hard
> drive.
> slowly i noticed the hard drive space deminish. when i worked out why i
> stopped the automatic backup. however i am unable to locate the location
> of
> the backup files. and all the wizard tells me is that is was saving it to
> that drive. from the outside it says only 2gb left. but when i group all
> including hidden and click properties there should be 20gb left. this
> defecit
> of space is where i think the backup files have gone. can anyone tell me
> how
> to locate these.
>
> thanks


 
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