I reformatted the My Book - which went smoothly. The copied a short video. Again - worked well. Now I'm copying a whole bunch of videos - and it's taking time. I'm copying about 10-15 hours of standard definition tv shows. So far, it's been over an hour. I have no idea how long it will take via USB2 connection. The 30 minute video took less than 5 minutes. I have follow-up questions. I wonder what the best way is to back up these files. I just opened up My Documents and right-clicked one at a time - then chose the option to "send to" and selected drive e: my book. I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I don't know what it is. I tried to highlight more than one file at a time (using the shift key) - but it didn't seem to want to let me highlight more than one at a time. I also wonder if I send a file to MY Book - does that mean it's moved to My Book and the original isn't on my PC - or is it copied there? Raven - I know I should know this by now, but I don't. How do I find my firefox profiles and bookmarks files so I can copy them to the external drive? Lastly, is there a way to copy files to the external drive in such a way that I can get prompted if the file already exists? so I don't make a copy and have 2 copies in there? with many files (like pictures), I may get a prompt that says the file already exists - should I overwrite it or skip. Is there anything like that when copying files to the external drive? At some point, should I bite the bullet and buy a software program to do this. Western Digital tries to give trial periods for the following software : Memeo Autobackup, Memeo Autosync. Any reason to get these? Or any other software? Also, when I reformatted the drive, it wiped the drive clean. Is there anything (drivers, software?) I would need to download from Western Digital (to replace anything I might have erased). I know that the proprietary software that's sometimes loaded with these things (like cameras, printers) may not be necessary at all. Thanks. Lynn.

cg - copying and pasting one at a time is exactly what I'm hoping to avoid. I don't really know how many I have saved to different folders on AOL - but I imagine it's hundreds. Ravencajun - i checked out the email about backing up to outlook express (and the importing outlook into gmail. I looked around at that person's site (some good info there), but i still don't quite get why i have to forward emails from one gmail account to another gmail account in order to be able to import them into Outlook (or Thunderbird). Couldn't I import directly from either my AOL or gmail account right into a outlook express or thunderbird?

Do the spots correspond to where the sheet touched the shelf? When the washer is fixed, you could try washing them and use White Brite. I have not used it, but someone on the Home Decorating forum recommends it highly: White Brite

On a PC, you can click on the "start" button and start typing "Snipping tool" (I almost wrote "sniffing") to open the tool. I had never used it before, but Houzz in now making that tool essential. Pretty soon they will make that impossible as well, in order to remain being as annoying as possible.