Windows 10: File History: Installing new drive and don't want to duplicate backed up files

Hello,Please can you help?I use File history to backup my HDD files to a 14TB HDD permanently connected by USB. It works great,I want to add an SSD and I will add any new folders on the SSD to a library so that File History will them back up.I will then move some of the files from the HDD to SSD, because I want the faster performance for photo/video editing.My problem is that if I move some of the files from the HDD to the SSD they will be backed up again. Is it possible to stop this? Or should I just delete the duplicated backup?ThanksPeter

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How to stop File History on the old drive and start File History on a new drive?

I use the external drive
for File History and have a lot of information there. I want to restart the File History process on a new drive and place the previous File History drive off-site.

Please suggest the steps to stop File History on the old drive and start File History on a new drive.

 

File History will not back up files to my external drive. Error 8100002F.

Hello,

Are you suggesting that I delete that all the folders that are listed under File History, and manually add every folder again?

If so, I want to back up all the default folders in File History except OneDrive.

Below is the latest list of defaults that I can find online:

Contacts, Desktop, Documents, Downloads. Favorites, Links, Music, One Drive, Pictures, Saved Games, Searches, Videos, and Camera Roll.

Since Contacts, Favorites, Links, Saved Games, Searches, and Camera Roll are not listed folders that I can see on File Explorer, can you please tell me where I can find those folders?

And which option for picking folders do you suggest that I choose?

The recommended option to let Windows choose, or customize?

FYI, this is a new 5 T external drive, and I have been unsuccessfullly trying to back up all my files for the first time.

I have no previous versions of backups available as my old external drive died, and I have been unable to backup any files since the beginning of January.

I first unlinked OneDrive and then uninstalled it, as all the error messages that kept getting involved One Drive.

And File History still does not work.

 

Finding duplicate files

Hey hey,

During the years the backups have just accumulated in random places, essentially, and I would like to clean up. Is there a program that can search for duplicate files? And by that I mean identical files. I tried dupeGuru, but that somehow found ... all files to be identical I guess? Like how a bunch of jpg's with different names, sizes and locations being marked 100% identical, or how a bunch of xls-files with completely different everything also were 100% matches with each other. I don't need any fancy functions, just a list of the files that share the name and filesize and created/last write dates.