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Over a network.

Not WiFi though!

You could hook a single network cable between them. Give each machine an IP address, share the folder that you are copying to or copying from (your choice) and drag the files over. Or you could use RoboCopy to potentially do it faster.

Or just get a 2tb usb external drive and use that, it could be slower or perhaps faster than the network option depending on many factors but also more expensive as you have to buy the drive!

I'm the opposite. I find it particularly inconvenient not having discs to simply pop on a player.

I use a couple of streaming services but those really are just a video on demand channel.

I have a few mp3's here and there, lol many on dvd-r but finding those when they are scattered about then writing to a spare flash drive just to stick in the player to watch is just a bit inconvenient.

Use a hdd? Well I could if I had the time to collect everything together and find a hdd and a caddy but I simply cba.

Basically the primary source for video and audio in my hoard is off optical media itself. And I'm adding more and more, so will be getting a couple of Billy shelves in the new year.

Ah yes. The "You are holding it wrong" response.

No, poster is incorrect. It is bad design on Microsofts part to have such an issue.

If something cant be save, you, the user, should be notified at the time you click save. It ain't rocket science and is fundamentally basic software design that should have been flagged up during the QA process that Microsoft no longer bother to employ.

No, poster is incorrect. It is bad design on Microsofts part to have such an issue.

If something cant be save, you, the user, should be notified at the time you click save. It ain't rocket science and is fundamentally basic software design that should have been flagged up during the QA process that Microsoft no longer bother to employ.

Its also a bad mark on the testing applied to office 365. The lack of basic testing from Microsoft in recent years drives me up the effing wall.

What should have happened is they should have tested PowerPoints reaction to saving a file to:

1. Full local storage.
2. Full remote storage.
3. And any other file operation exceptions such as permission errors.

If your hdd had filled up I bed PowerPoint would have had something to say. It probably has no idea that the cloud storage was full, because someone didn't test for that and highlight that the cloud storage back end (onedrive) was probably never given such functionality.

As a former software tester I would have not signed off PowerPoint nor onedrive until such a quality assurance UX flaw had been addressed. That's what I used to do, I certainly affected the design of the software as I found the design flawed many times, not just unable to handle an error but also to have the wrong or non existent feedback to users.

When I worked in a company that used 365 (dont any more thankfully) onedrive was a pain in the effing IT support buttocks. It was constantly getting "stuck", constantly and silently failing to sync conflicting files, its UI lacked the basic usability features needed to let the user detect this and deal with it without me getting involved.

No

But storage is technically memory.

You've changed the sata cables and tried a different port yes?

2 years is long term?

Wow now I feel old, at my age 2 years feels like what 6 months used to be lol.

I just keep the DVDs and Blu-ray as they are considering I use optical media for archives anyway!

But let's say I have a dvd that needs backup because it's extremely rare or, and this is actually more likely and what I actually do: I'm off on holiday at the end of the week and want to have Red Dwarf series 1 and I don't fancy bringing the dvd itself along because I'm short on space when packing.

Well, rip the disc to an ISO file or as a mirrored directory structure. It's only a maximum of 8GB for a single disc. I just rip a mirror of the disc using vobcopy.

Vobcopy will rip a title, or a chapter or will recreate the exact copy of the disc as a mirror, all the VOB files, IFO files etc. That way you have everything, all extras and all menus. It is a mirror of the disc, no re-encoding.

If having a 8GB iso is not what you are after and you need to re-encode, well that will need you to rip each disc specially, that means to learn how the extras are laid out, what audio tracks are what etc. You can rip it all to separate files, but you will lose things like menus and other presentation elements which is why I just mirror the whole disc.

As I keep all my discs and use them as intended I don't need to worry about ripping extras if I don't need to. In my example I mirrored Red Dwarf S1 but that was just so I could avoid taking the disc on holiday (I was already taking other discs and had no room) and I didn't care to re-encode. I also simply deleted that rip when I was done with it as, well it's still on dvd.

But I do have some rips of DVDs I no longer have. I may have upgraded to the Blu-ray and wanted to rip the main title for eas of use when on holiday etc, or I simply didn't care enough to keep the dvd of something but I couldn't just not have a copy of that thing I didn't care much about. Thus I have ripped certain DVDs that I don't intend to keep, only the main titles and no extras. I only rip what I can't be bothered much about so I really can't see the point in ripping the extras for something that is just above the "delete" key lol.

I found that there are at least 3 types of HDD user.

• Those that only use WD because every Seagate they touch or see just seems to die.
• Those that use Seagate as they have WD's dieing if they sneeze near them.
• Those that have realised Toshiba still exist.

I looked at one once and it died.

In fact I tend to kill Seagate's a lot lol, I generally avoid the brand.