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I just purchased the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection, upgrade edition and, subsequently have to ‘upgrade’.

In order to do that effectively I’m about to start the task of moving all extraneous files off the workstation ( Dual 2 Ghz PowerPC G5, 2 GB DDR SDRAM ) and onto a 200 GB Maxtor OneTouch III firewire drive.

Any advice? Any of you out there that really feel comfortable with any & all of the above?

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Marconius offline Verified User (2 years, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
San Francisco, CA, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (3 hours, 14 minutes after post)

I wouldn’t touch Maxtor drives…I’ve had a lot of luck with LaCie drives or any enclosures that have Seagate or Western Digital hard drives inside of them.

I have a LaCie Big Disk 250GB external FW 800 drive that’s worked beautifully, plus have a LaCie 120GB external from 5 years ago that still runs well.

Getting a second internal drive can help with backing up and storage, plus is much faster than a Firewire connection.

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Unicity offline Verified User (3 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Mesquite, NV, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (3 hours, 37 minutes after post)

It is unfortunate then that I have the Maxtor. But that is what I have. I also have a pair of Acomdata UE572’s ( 250 GB ). As I said, This is what I have to work with. What I need help with is the most effective way to find and move all the archived files off the Hard Drives in the machines, onto the external Hard Drives.

I’m assuming it’s *.mov’s, *.jpg’s *.doc’s, *.html’s, *.webloc’s - That’s an assumption on my part. Any and all advice & suggestions would be appreciated. This is not about ‘Brands’ …

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Marconius offline Verified User (2 years, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
San Francisco, CA, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (10 hours, 46 minutes after post)

What exactly are you upgrading? If you are upgrading to OS 10.4 and want to do a clean install, just back up all the files you personally need…so everything in your Home directory or any other files you want to save that have been strewn around your desktop or other places on your hard drive.

You’ll have to re-install Applications, but that’s a lot easier than trying to hunt down all the individual files and preferences that each Application needs to run.

There’s really nothing much to it…just make sure to get everything you want to save.

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Unicity offline Verified User (3 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Mesquite, NV, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (13 hours, 15 minutes after post)

Let me repeat, I just purchased the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection [ upgrade edition ] and, subsequently, have to ‘upgrade’. [ From Creative Suite Premium Edition, The Original CS ].

I have to locate and move, for example only, All my pictures, All my movies, All My Music, All my webloc’s, All my PDF’s, All my web archives, html files etc., etc., to free up space to work with …

Perhaps this is a little more clear?

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Marconius offline Verified User (2 years, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
San Francisco, CA, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (14 hours, 15 minutes after post)

OK, so what’s the issue? Just plug the drive in and put all the files you’d like to back up onto it prior to deleting them off of your main drive.

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Unicity offline Verified User (3 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Mesquite, NV, US | 2 years, 2 months ago (14 hours, 57 minutes after post)

Forgive me but …

I’m sitting here watching while my workstation is divesting itself of some 450,000 files- Secure Empty Trash …

I was looking for someone with a similar experience to share ’strategies’ in so far as tracking down archive files across the drive and, ” putting them all onto the external drive prior to deleting them”.

I’m not certain, of course, because I’m not finished, but I’d guess I’m about twenty-five percent into this project …

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