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Example: You are backing up your entire user account on a windows computer that you have found to be 10gb in size. If you only had an 8gb pen drive, you would not be able to save all of you information on that device.
Windows 7/Vista: Right on the desired file or folder and select "Properties". The amount of information will be displayed under "Size".
Mac OS X: Hold "control" and click on the desired folder or file location. Select "Get Info". The amount of information will be displayed under "Size".
General User Data/ Personal Data
General user data is anything that you have put on the computer. Desktop icons, pictures, downloads, documents, music, movies, etc. This is commonly referred to as personal data and if you quickly wanted to grab all the personal information on the computer, this is the file that you would need.
Windows 7/Vista: Open "Computer". Double click on your C: Drive. Here there will be folder entitled "Users". You can save all the users as a whole. Or Open this folder to find each individual user on the computer.
Mac OS X: Click on your desktop in open space to ensure that you have "Finder" to the right of your top left Apple symbol. You then click on the "Go" drop down and select "Computer". Here there will be folder entitled "Users". You can save all the users as a whole. Or Open this folder to find each individual user on the computer.
Office Documents
Windows 7/Vista: Files such as
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Applications such as mail clients and purchased third party software commonly do not save their files in your user accounts. It is important to reference these programs specifically for their default save locations. |
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