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everyone its technology expert Burton
Kelso here with another tech tip to help
you get the most out of the technology
in your life
today we're talking about how to
transfer files from an old computer to a
new computer it's one of the challenges
that most people deal with and it makes
getting a new computer almost as
difficult and stressful as moving it's a
pain in the butt and sometimes people
will avoid getting new technology
because it's such a pain to move stop
it's a challenge so what can you do well
there are several things that you can do
if your Windows or Macintosh user to
make the process a lot simpler for you
to get that new computer set up and to
get those files off of the old computer
that way if you're trying to repurpose
the computer to give to a loved one or
if you just want to simply donate the
computer you don't have to sit on it for
years wondering about how you're gonna
get those files off your old devices
we're gonna switch screens like we
always do show you how to get those
files to easily transfer from your
Windows and Macintosh computer now keep
in mind I said easier there's some more
complicated ways to do it but that's not
why I do these tech tips
alright so yay you got a new computer
right got all the styrofoam that you
want to fumble with and get out on the
box but what do you do next you get that
computer all set up and you want to be
able to get those files transferred over
so what can you do well let's go back to
our screen here and I'll show you what
to do so yes you have a new computer so
one of the first things that you want to
do is to enable some sort of backup
system and we don't preach about vacuum
meaning us tech guys because it's the
safe thing to do it also is a way for
you to make sure that your information
will transfer over to your new device
it's a lot simpler for you to back up
your data rather than trying to get that
information to transfer over by hooking
up an external hard drive or using one
of those data cables that don't work so
backing up is a good thing to do because
it helps get that information onto your
new device now the next thing that you
can you should worry about is how are
you going to backup that data
well there's two different ways you can
use an external hard drive which we're
going to talk about right now and
there's cloud backup which we'll get to
in a few seconds here but external hard
drives are probably one of the easier
ways to backup your information and both
windows and Macintosh makes that process
a lot easy to do there's two programs
that are built into your Windows and
Macintosh computers the first being file
history which is a backup program that's
built into Windows File history if once
you enable it will allow you to
automatically backup your stuff let's
open the screen that I just closed and
let's go to documents and then let's go
to file history now file history can be
found by just going to search and typing
in file history once we type in file
history it'll give you your backup
settings on your computer and you can
automatically tell it to backup your
computer using file history now I know
that's for Windows users out there but
what about Macintosh users and that is
pretty simple because you can use
Macintosh time machine and time machine
is a tried-and-true program that allows
you to backup your files automatically
in your Mac the time machine is a little
bit more advanced than file history
because time machine will backup files
all the files on your computer and your
programs now keep in mind file history
will only backup files so if you get a
new computer
you will have to restore your
information now let's switch to our
desktop so you can kind of get an idea
of time machine now time machine like I
said for Mac is pretty easy to find on
most Macintosh computers you can just
let's log in and get back to Time
Machine but once you're logged into your
computer you can just go ahead and click
in the upper right hand corner and enter
time machine now once you're in time
machine you can either look and see your
previous backups which is what this
screen is showing you or if we hit
cancel you can ask the time machine icon
again and it will give you the option to
if it'll pop up to open Time Machine
preferences where you can designate the
hard drive to be backed up to time
machine or an N you can tell the time
machine to backup automatically or
whatever
now Time Machine will backup
automatically so you want to enable that
so that way you don't miss any of your
backups when you utilize time machine
the next thing that you can use as far
as backing up it's concerned is cloud
backup now cloud backup is probably the
easiest a simple way to backup your
information because the cloud you can
turn easily transport it from one device
to another next on a hard drive you can
lose that data and your external hard
drive can to get destroyed but cloud
backup there's somewhat of redundancy
that you can deal with now the two forms
of cloud backup you can use a cloud
backup service like Dropbox or my dry
Dropbox or my cloud and what I was
trying to say or onedrive or Google
Drive I don't know where that my drive
came from but anyway these are cloud
storage services so in order to get
these features to work he would have to
physically move your information to the
cloud in order to get these programs to
work now my favorite way to backup for
cloud would be with the cloud backup
system is a closed to a cloud storage
system cloud storage allows you to store
your files cloud backup means that your
files are
being backed up now cloud services such
as I Drive back Belize and Carbonite
will automatically backup your files for
your windows and your Macintosh devices
enabling you to when you get a new
device to install these programs and
they will automatically restore your
files to your computer meaning that once
the service is enabled your files will
magically come down and you'll have
access to all your file now on Macintosh
systems your programs if you were to use
time machine will automatically be
installed to your new device
Windows users unfortunately you need to
reinstall those programs in order to get
access to the documents that you would
use so keep that in mind when thinking
of a cloud backup system but always back
up your windows and macintosh computer
number one it saves your data number two
it makes it a lot easier for you to
restore your files to a new device when
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