Current wisdom on transferring files/data/programs to new computer?
Sep 16, 2016 | 5:28 pm
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In the unlikely event your OS craps out or you wish to upgrade to Windows 10, you still have your data partition with all of your stuff (yes, you also need a backup strategy blah blah blah).
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When I still used Windows, I pointed My Documents to D: and that took care of the "default loving" programs. In the pre-SSD era it was faster to put it even on a separate drive. It used to be (still is?) good practice to keep your system and user data on separate partitions/drives.
Sep 20, 2016 | 9:28 pm
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When I still used Windows, I pointed My Documents to D: and that took care of the "default loving" programs. In the pre-SSD era it was faster to put it even on a separate drive. It used to be (still is?) good practice to keep your system and user data on separate partitions/drives.
Sep 21, 2016 | 7:33 am
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I'm a Mac person now, but even if I wasn't I'd have all documents in Google Drive. Access to them from any machine, tablet, phone, etc.
New machine? Install programs, connect to Drive, done.
New machine? Install programs, connect to Drive, done.