Hiya - I hope I’m posting in the proper area of the forum.
I have a WD 2tb passport, and love how it’s worked so far. I may have made a mistake, and need some direction.
I loaded a lot of music from CDs to the computer in WAV, then deleted it from the computer to free up space.
At a point a day later, I changed the back up type on the passport from the default to file backup. Realizing that I may have initiated a re-write to the backup, I panicked and stopped and changed the backup back to default: I really didn’t want to spend another 20 hours re-loading the music if I don’t have to. I would really like not to have to re-load everything back onto the computer, wipe the drive and start again…
Now when I open the utility, the file size indicated under music matches the size currently on the computer. There is the greyed-out area indicating 129GB of ‘other files’, which likely matches the WAV files, but I can’t access the information. It wasn’t there before I switched backup preferences. I’m attaching an image that also has a capture of the message “102.87 GB of 182.47 files copied”, which always stops at the 102.87 mark, then states “backup accomplished successfully”, then flips back to the 102.87GB message…
So.Is the backup file amount message that keeps showing and flipping back & forth a glitch that indicates problems I can fix? If so, how?
Does switching from default to file backup blow out the backup and cause a new backup to start?
Whether it does or not, it appears the older information is still there, but how do I access it to verify? Running Windows7 Home premium.
Thanks in advance for any direction anyone here can provide…
P.S. It was doing this before the upgrade. I performed that this morning.
