My point is that you should not remove the install decks, manuals etc. for
two reasons. Firstly they are small and secondly because if you need to
connect to a PC without the device drivers the system will extract them from
the My Passport install decks.
These are the settings from my My Passport.
Volume in drive J is My Passport
Volume Serial Number is 74B7-6DCC
Directory of J:\
06/09/2012 17:48 4,223,936 WD Apps Setup.exe
25/07/2013 01:30 <DIR> Extras
25/07/2013 01:30 <DIR> Locale
25/07/2013 01:30 <DIR> My Passport Apps for Mac
25/07/2013 01:30 <DIR> WD User Manuals
25/07/2013 01:30 <DIR> WD Apps for Windows
10/09/2014 11:52 <DIR> Backups
14/04/2015 12:07 <DIR> temp
08/10/2016 10:13 <DIR> GTX Drivers
1 File(s) 4,223,936 bytes
8 Dir(s) 1,465,986,134,016 bytes free
WD Apps Setup.exe and folders Extras, Locale, My Passport Apps for Mac, WD
User Manuals and WD Apps for Windows are files and folders that you should
never delete, and are very, very small (245MB).
Anything else there should be yours, unless you do use WD software to make
backups there for you. In my case I use ViceVersa to put backups into the
Backups folder.
Regards
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Barbara Ford
Sent: 03 February 2017 22:20
To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Big Question
Oh, wow, good information. If I may ask further, then...my understanding was
that if I did not intend to use the Western Digital software for automatic
backups (which I do NOT), and I only wanted to use the WD passport drive
simply as an external hard drive, that I would not need the WD software that
is on the passport drive. I was wrong on that?? (I wasn't worried so much
about space taken as about trying to remember what the heck all those
folders were about).
> On Feb 3, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Chris Hill <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> I would be very careful about wanting to remove a folder, created by
> WD, on a My Passport. These files include the software installs to
> enable Windows and Mac to access the rest of the device. On my 2TB
> drive they are using 241MB, about .01% of it. Otherwise, they are
> because you are using the device as a backup to your PC.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Barbara Ford
> Sent: 03 February 2017 14:40
> To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Big Question
>
> Now that makes perfect sense. I'm flagging this note to perhaps save
> me some pain when I do a new install into Windows 10.
>
> Agree about the admin thing--I currently cannot get rid of a folder (a
> Western Digital folder) I do not want on an external hard drive,
> because it says I don't have administrative privileges. Enfuriating.
>
> Thanks,
> Barb
>
>> On Feb 2, 2017, at 10:36 PM, Robert57P_gmail <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> One problem you may have run into with Legacy 6 and Win7: Windows 7
> "protects" some of the folders that used to be open. By default, the
> older Legacy versions (I forget when they changed it) used to install
> in some of these folders that are now "protected".
>>
>> I got around this by overriding the Legacy install. If you install
>> Legacy
> 6 on Windows 10 (or Win8 or Win7), instead of accepting the normal
> "C:\PROGRAM FILES", instead tell Legacy to install into something like:
> "C:\winprog\legacy". Since you are creating that "winprog" folder,
> windows has no rules about it and won't protect it. So the older
> programs should run fine out of that location.
>>
>> I have a C:\winprog, and C:\wingame, and a C:\winutil - I install any
>> "old
> style" programs in those folders instead of in "C:\PROGRAM FILES" and
> it works pretty good. And I store data from "old style" programs into
> C:\windata. As much as I appreciate Microsoft "trying to protect us
> from ourselves", I don't like being told "you don't have permission to
> mess in folder xyz"!!! I'm the administrator of this computer, darn
> it - I can do (or should be able to do) whatever I want where ever I
> want . . . as long as I understand the consequences. Or, as a poster I
once saw said:
>> "When my computer tells me I don't have admin privileges . . . Aren't
>> we
> forgetting one teensy weensy but ever so critical little tiny detail?
> I OWN YOU"
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>> On 02/02/2017 14:16, Barb Ford wrote:
>>> Okay, thank you, James. My incorrect assumption that Legacy 6 would
>>> not
> play well with Windows 10 was based on this: When I started with
> Legacy 6, I used XP. A few years ago, I changed to Windows 7. At that
> time, my Legacy program simply would not open with the new operating
> system. I was able to utilize the help of someone from this group, at
> that time, who spent a lot of time off-group, even with a Skype
> session, helping me to get everything to work. It was my understanding
> that the problem was because of the operating system and that I should
> consider upgrading to a newer Legacy version if I encountered further
> problems. As I say, that was my understanding at the time; perhaps I
> misunderstood, or perhaps I was given incorrect or incomplete
> information. Either way, it has been in the back of my mind that when
> I changed operating systems again, I should be ready to upgrade to the
> latest Legacy version. I see now that I was laboring under a false
assumption/conclusion.
>>> Thank you,
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> ------ Original Message ------
>>> From: "James Smith" <[email protected]>
>>> To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: 2/2/2017 1:03:46 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Big Question
>>>
>>>> Barbara, Legacy 6 works perfectly well with Windows 10, I notice no
> difference since Windows XP and 8.1. As someone else indicated, if you
> upgrade to Legacy 8, make a copy of your Legacy 6 file to transfer to
> Legacy 8, keeping your Legacy 6 file intact. Once your file is
> transferred to Legacy 8 it will be unusable on Legacy 6. As stated,
> you can run both programs on the same computer until you are comfortable
with the new Legacy.
>>>>
>>>> James Smith
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/2/2017 1:46 PM, Barbara Ford wrote:
>>>>> Brian, then if I kept both, would they access the data from the
>>>>> same
> data file, or does Legacy 8 put its data in a different location, and
> does it save it "on the fly" like Legacy 6? My Legacy 6 data is all in
> a folder named Legacy that resides directly on the C hard drive. I
> don't have a real reason for wanting NOT to use Legacy 6, except that
> I fear it would not work well with Windows 10. Am I right on that?
>>>>>
>>>>>> O
>>>>
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