09-18-2011 05:56 AM
I have a FreeAgent Go 1 TB. It's starting to fill up. I basically use the BACKUP tab. How do I find and delete old "backup" files that I no longer need? Thanks
09-18-2011 03:49 PM
Same way as you delete any other file unless it's locked, when that happens to me I bring out my big bro the format tool.
09-21-2011 06:28 AM
I wouldn't know what to delete. If I open the drive in Windows Explorer, there are directories I recognize from my hard drive and others like "boot" and Utilities that I don't. They there directories for "Seagate" and "Seagate Backup". Seagate Backup has two directories: KEE-TECRA and KEE-TECRA(1) as well as Archive. When I viiew file details, I really can't find current dates despite backing up last night. The backups say "complete" so I'm assuming they work.
09-22-2011 03:18 AM
The ones not to delete are the software ones, these are labelled Seagate Manager etc, the rest in yellow folders should just be ones you've written, simple delete should get rid of them, and empty the re-cycle bin before disconnecting the FA.
09-22-2011 02:33 PM
When you open your drive, all Files/Folders are supposedly arranged by "Date Created/Modified", in the order of earliest to most recent date. If not, depending on your OS, select "View" > "Arrange Icons By" > "Date Created/Modified". You'll probably see KEE-TECRA is arranged before KEE-TECRA(1).
In order to confirm this arrangement, right click each folder, then "Properties" to see "Date Created/Modified". Similarly, you can use this tip to check files in those folders.
Additionally, you would also be able to identify which files are backups by looking at their extension (a three-letter word that follows the filename and a dot) such as "xxxx.tib" created by SeagateDiscWizard.
By now, you can tell which ones are backups and which ones are older than the others.
10-03-2011 09:07 AM
I have a FreeAgent Go from 2008, I deleted 120G of data off it to reuse and it shows 0 files and only 8G of memory left. How can I clean up so I can use the full memory?
10-04-2011 04:25 AM
Can you do a properties screen shot of it?
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