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LambentTyto

LambentTyto

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So I've got a pretty new Western Digital external hard drive. It's one terabyte.

Anyway, I have a few music files. About 30 gigs worth. I copy monthly to my external to back up all the new stuff I'm always getting.

Today, I checked the properties on the folder that holds all this music on both folders. One folder is on my laptop. The folder on my laptop says 7,480 files, while the external drive says 7,473 files. I know, it's only seven files, but it's driving me nuts!

I had this same problem a few months ago, so I re-copied everything on my computer's hard drive onto the external and fixed the problem, but now it's doing it again.

I've never had ANY problems while transferring files. Ever! If the transfer ever gets interrupted, I start over from the beginning.

So what could this be?

Are there any programs out there that can look at two folders that are supposed to be identical and compare them so I can see exactly what's happening?

What other fixes can y'all recommend?

Thanks
 
Did you run them properly ? You should select the two areas you want to synchronize files on and the software on first run will align both chosen areas to be the same then after that when you add a file to one of the directories it will keep it synchronized in the other directory.

If you are having problems with having lots of duplicate files use Auslogics duplicate file finder to sort through your files and get rid of all the mess - http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/duplicate-file-finder/download/
 
jamesd1981 said:
Did you run them properly ? You should select the two areas you want to synchronize files on and the software on first run will align both chosen areas to be the same then after that when you add a file to one of the directories it will keep it synchronized in the other directory.

If you are having problems with having lots of duplicate files use Auslogics duplicate file finder to sort through your files and get rid of all the mess - http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/duplicate-file-finder/download/
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All right.
 
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