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Question

internal HDD-data migration to partition-how safe?

Jul 28, 2014 8:09PM PDT

My laptop internal HDD is divided into two parts/partitions (as far as I can tell): one for videos & the other for text & text-based documents.

The section for videos is about full. On the other hand, as I spend the vast majority of my time working on text documents, this data or text section is pretty well empty-currently, 92MB of 250GB capacity.

At a later date, I plan to transfer my video files to a much larger external HDD.

My question is this: until I get the eternal HDD, as a temporary measure, is it 'safe' to transfer video files to the section reserved for text? What could be the ramifications, if any?

Thanks.

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Re: data migration
Jul 28, 2014 8:42PM PDT

Moving files around to existing or new folders doesn't harm at all (unless you have shortcuts or history pointing to the old location, because those won't work any more).
Creating new files anywhere won't influence other files.

So there is no single objection to doing it.

Kees

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Let me share a story about Jeb.
Jul 29, 2014 12:47AM PDT

Jeb, a client insisted on using partitions to segregate files. Movies went in one, pictures in another, etc. One of Jeb's problems was that as they would "manage" partitions with Partition Magic (which was big during that time) was the occasional blow up and melt down of the file system. We could never tell if Jeb had clicked on the wrong button or such but after a few years Jeb finally relented on using partitions for segregation and began to take our advice about folders.

That is, it's just as easy and far less dangerous to file what you want in folders.
Bob