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Old December 5th 17, 12:39 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_5_]
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Default Help for a friend

On 12/04/2017 06:21 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
all he needs to worry about is his data files which are mostly stored in
My Documents (Windows OS.Â* For things like Firefox and Thunderbird, if
he backs up each of the profiles for the USER folder, he will not loose
anything.


I just checked my personal folder (only user) and It's like 8Gig.
So yes, A simple 16 or 32G thumb would easily copy that.
And a good number of programs drop config files into that user folder.

And yes, Macrium is only good if the drive is going bad. My overkill.
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