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Do you keep your kits on your hard drive?

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Jam-on-toast

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..or do you use a separate exterman drive and work from there? I used to do the latter - my computer didn't have enough storage so everything I had - kits and templates etc - is on two external harddrives. Now that I have a new laptop and it has 1TB of storage, I am thinking of transfering my supplies onto my new toy and ditching the USB thing... What do you think? I feel external memory is safer, but it feels silly not to take advantage of all the storage my laptop has.... or am I wrong and the hard drive is safer - I would really HATE to lose my stash...
 
I have mine on an EHD but want to transfer a second copy to another EHD, I'd be sick if I lost it all. This is a good reminder to do that soon.
 
I have lots of memory on my laptop so a lot of them (all my current kits) are on there. I have 3 EHD's so I make labels and put them on the bottom, so I know what' where. The kits that I rarely use (mostly old ones) I transfer to an EHD. Lots of mine are duplicates, like Rae said @bcgal00 because I like to have backups of my files, too. Once I'm all done with a layout, I move the PSD file + the full sized jpg to an EHD or to a "PRINT FILE".
 
Everything up until last April, when I got my new computer, I have on external hard drives. My new computer also has 1TB so I haven't been transferring to EHDs since April. But, I'm going to do that, just incase. I will feel safer with a backup copy.
 
Every few months I transfer the TIFF files for my layouts to an EHD that only holds those files. I have another EHD just for kits. I only keep kits on my hard drive that are by designers I'm currently CT'ing for. For example, since I only CT for Oscraps right now, I have a folder of Oscraps designers with all their products on my hard drive. It's easy enough to grab the EHD if I want to make a project with a non-Oscraps product, and it keeps plenty of free space on my laptop, which is older.

I have cloud backup of my laptop and the 2 EHD's.
 
i started to save new kits on my new (SSD) EHD but the reason is that I use (2) outside conmputers (with Adobe CC23) . so I have my stuff I need with me.
 
Everything recent (since two I got this laptop two years ago) is on an internal hard drive and an external hard drive. Everything older than that is on at least one external hard drive.
 
AZK said:
Every few months I transfer the TIFF files for my layouts to an EHD that only holds those files. I have another EHD just for kits. I only keep kits on my hard drive that are by designers I'm currently CT'ing for. For example, since I only CT for Oscraps right now, I have a folder of Oscraps designers with all their products on my hard drive. It's easy enough to grab the EHD if I want to make a project with a non-Oscraps product, and it keeps plenty of free space on my laptop, which is older.

I have cloud backup of my laptop and the 2 EHD's.
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Oh, this is such a logical thing to do... I haven't thought of it for some reason, but it's exactly what I need to do. Thank you so much!
 
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I keep all my more current supplies on my desktop, backed up to the cloud. I transfer my older supplies to an EHD every six months. I had two EHDs fail on me within a month of each other so I don’t trust them to keep anything current safe But if I lose older supplies it’s not the end of the world.
 
I am a super lucky girl. My hubby is a tech wizard and so we have a home server and I have a portion of it for all my goodies. It is backed up every night and it is a joy and a pleasure. I did start with a hard drive, but Hubby didn't like that and then I stored everything in the cloud until he gave me a part of the server (it needs to be big and fast) and it works so well with Adobe Bridge.
 
ClaireG said:
I am a super lucky girl. My hubby is a tech wizard and so we have a home server and I have a portion of it for all my goodies. It is backed up every night and it is a joy and a pleasure. I did start with a hard drive, but Hubby didn't like that and then I stored everything in the cloud until he gave me a part of the server (it needs to be big and fast) and it works so well with Adobe Bridge.
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oh, Claire, that's super lucky indeed...
 
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