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30: Backing Up Information

Backing up your information is the only sure fire way to ensure that you do not lose any of your important documents. This is very simple to do and should be done on a regular basis.

If you wish to just backup all of your documents, simply copy your documents folder to a blank CD, a thumb drive, or some other form of media. Please note that ONLY documents in the documents folder are backed up with this process. Please see File and Folder Management for more information. You can access your documents folder in two different places. First, is in the sidebar of a window in the Finder.



The second method is in your user directory.



If you wish to backup all of your files (movie clips, mp3's, iTunes, documents, images, etc…) copy your user folder to an external device or storage media. Please know that if you have several songs or pictures, these large folders will require a lot of space and may require multiple CDs or DVDs.

This article was last edited on Jun-06-2006 6:49 pm
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