I've been using it to back up my music files.

FreeFileSync is free but does ask for a donation. So you won't accidentally end up erasing your source files. It has a graphical interface and will show you what files will be moved or erased. Robocopy is a powerful tool, but not user friendly.Ī better option is FreeFileSync. It is way too easy to get the source and destination reversed and end up wiping out your source files.

Just be aware that Robocopy can be very dangerous. But you need to be very comfortable with the command line parameters and understand what they all mean and do. This review is for the potential buyers like me who tend to ignore negative reviews with the thought, 'It probably won't happen to me.' Yes, I thought that, and unfortunately, I was wrong.Robocopy will work. So I got a refund, purchased a WD drive and haven't looked back since. Thankfully I had backed up my precious footage on a large flash drive that doesn't crash. Finally I realized that the amount of time I spent troubleshooting this issue, I could have spent editing my footage. Seagate reps weren't particularly helpful and kept pointing me to articles on their site that I'd already read and found useless for solving the issue.

Instead, I searched through scores and scores of articles, forums, downloaded and installed various drivers to try and remedy the solution.hell, I temporarily became an IT technician in my attempt to restore this hard drive and recover my files. This would all be fine if there was a quick and easy fix for the problem but that would be too simple for Seagate. After two weeks of decent use, the drive crashed on me in the middle of an upload.

Although super light and portable, this hard drive is a piece of rubbish should you jolt, shift, or move the drive without the care of a piece of glass. Like many other buyers, I was lured into the Seagate trap because of the phenomenal pricing.

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