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The Tip of the Night for October 8, 2015 discussed Volume Snapshot copies in Windows. Windows will automatically make copies of data on users' hard drives. Shadow Explorer is an application which allows you to access different shadow copies from a drop down menu, and export individual back-up folders that you want to export (just right click).
It is particularly useful for Windows 8 users who don't have a GUI interface to access the shadow copies their operating systems generate.
Windows 7 contains a built-in back-up system. To access it right click on a drive letter in Windows Explorer and select Properties, then click on the Tools tab.
As you can see you have the option to back up the files on the drive. When you click on 'Back up now . . .', you will get option to create a system image or set up a backup.
If you want to get a quick overview of where data is stored on a hard drive or network directory, and what types of files are present, try the free utility, WinDirStat, available at: https://windirstat.net/ .
As you can in this screen grab, WinDirStat shows the percentage of a drive's data that individual folders hold. So the 'My Documents' folder has 79.5% per cent of the data on the C drive, and the 'My Music' subfolder has 88.2% of the data in that 'My Documents' folder.
The graphic at the bottom of the screen shows at a glance that by far MPEGs are the most common file type on the C drive, by referring the color code list on the upper right.
