It's easy to use if you know how to use Windows Explorer. I have no idea how the "Dashboard" is supposed to work. I never install software unless I know what it does and know that it's something I want or need. Extra software seems to inevitably make things more difficult than they have to be.

I'd recommend uninstalling the Dashboard since it is confusing you and none of us can help you with it. Just use Windows Explorer.

Instead of Drag and Drop, you can:
Right-click the folder that contains your music and choose Copy from the Context menu.
Browse to your external drive in Windows Explorer or My Computer.
Right-click inside your external drive (next to where the backup file is) and choose Paste.

That should do it. Once it's finished coyping, you should be able to browse inside the folder on your external drive and see your music files.

Thanks Jenny,

I can't remove the dashboard because it is an automatic thing with this particular external. I will try what you are suggesting to see if it works. The worst part about this Go Flex is the lack of explanation of the features. There are only a few choices and they don't seem to match what I want to do. I will let you know how the IE works out. Thanks you!

PS. I did what you suggested and it looks like the iTunes files are in there !!!! In order to get them off my computer, I need to delete iTunes? In case they didn't transfer, as it appears, how do I burn a backup dvd to save them?

Thanks.!

You don't have to get rid of iTunes. Just delete the files you don't want through iTunes.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_delete_songs_from_itunes

This one is a more complete explanation
http://www.ehow.com/how_5916210_delete-songs-itunes-windows.html

Check to see how large your music folder is. Right-click the folder and choose Properties and see if it gives you a size in MB or GB.

To burn the contents of the folder to DVD kind of depends on how large the folder is. You'll need more than one DVD if the folder is larger than 4.7 GB.

Do you have a disc burning program that you use, like Nero?


Are you saying there's no entry for it in Add/Remove Programs?

"I can't remove the dashboard because it is an automatic thing with this particular external."

See if this helps -

FreeAgent GoFlex - Uninstalling Seagate Dashboard and Memeo from a Windows computer

I'm not sure how the Dashboard works, but with my Seagate Manager, I simply don't have to use it if I don't want to. I open up my Seagate Go drive in My Computer and make the window smaller. Then I open up the location of the files I want to transfer to the drive, make that window smaller and then drag and drop them to the Seagate Go drive.

I think that it is confusing me when all of you say "files". When I want to remove a music file does that mean that I have to drag each song or is a file something else? I have an iTune file folder on my desktop but the External hard drive program won';t let me move it.

If you drag from one location on a drive to another location on the same drive, it usually moves the files to the second location.

But if you drag files or folders from one drive to another drive, it usually makes a copy on the second drive without deleting the original on the first drive.

The External hard drive program may be waiting for you to tell it to copy the folder over, and isn't letting you move it before it has a chance to copy them.

You really need to get rid of that External hard drive program. It's confusing everything. Have you checked Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel to see if you find that Dashboard program listed? You should be able to uninstall it.

I totally agree with Jenny. The Dashboard is just too confusing. Try using the link Inland posted to uninstall the Dashboard program.

The Seagate Manager that came with my Seagate Go was also "automatic." But it's listed in my Add/Remove programs, so I can uninstall it if I want. But I don't use it that much. I mostly just move files from one drive to another.

I don't use I-Tunes so can't help you out much with that. Maybe someone else will know more at that.

Jenny,

I have burned cds but have never burned a dvd. I just use Windows Media or itunes to burn cds. I am not familiar with Nero. My iTunes file is 161.00 MB. Do you know how many dvds I will neeed? I will look into Nero.

I also have a program on my hard drive that is related to an old Internet provider. If I delete it I will get back 60.14 MB. It won't let me delete it because of my pop-up blocker. I have Norton and can't seem to find a way to temporarily allow pop-ups so that I can delete it. I have searched and looked through all of the topics. Guess I will have to contact Comcast. I am not sure how large 60.14 MBs is but getting back that much space should surely help?

Thanks.

A CD will hold up to 700 MB and a DVD will hold up to 4.7 GB.

If you burn CD's using iTunes, they will take up many many many times more space than if you simply copy the file over.

If your iTunes folder is only 161 MB in size, the whole folder should easily fit on a single CDR. CDR's will hold 700 MB. You only burn using iTunes if you want to play the music on an old CD player that is not capable of playing mp3 or m4a files.

Also, if your iTunes music folder is only 161 MB, it can't be what is filling up your hard drive. That is a tiny folder and you can't have a very large music collection if that is really how large it is.

Deleting 60.14 MB won't make any real difference.

You said your hard drive was 69.7 GB.
One GB is 1000 MB. You should probably free up another 25 GB to get your hard drive running optimally. 25 GB is about 25,000 GB, so you can see that 60.14 MB isn't going to make much difference at all to your hard drive space.

That doesn't mean you need to keep an unnecessary program though. You should be able to delete the program through Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. Don't just delete the folder.

I used to know of a utility that would tell you what programs were using the bulk of your hard drive space. It would show a pie chart labelled according to what was using the space. I can't remember the name of the utility though.

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It may have been ***Disk Analyzer***. If not, it was something similar. It shows which files and folders are hogging all your disk space.

Thanks for explaining that to me. I won't try to delete my iTunes folder if it won't help me that much. I have gone through my add/remove programs in Control Panel to see what else I can delete. I think that I have done about all that I can without deleting necessary program files. There might be some things that I can delete but am being cautious since I don't know what some of the files are or what they do.

Guess I am just going to have to deal with my lack of hard drive space until I can afford to purchase another PC.

Thanks to everyone for the help that you have given me on this issue. I really appreciate it!

P.S. Forgot to say that I will look into the Disk Analyzer just in case it can find something.