Soldato
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My machine died the other week and I lost them all. Amazon officially only let you download them the once when you buy them, I explained the situation to them and they let me download them again without any hassle.
Since then I setup a Robocopy scheduled task to back them up to another folder. This was very simple to do but will definitely help if the PC ever crashes again.
1. Create a new folder where you want to backup the folder structure.
2. Create a new text file and then rename it to a .bat extension
3. In this text file put a command like this, replace my parameters with your own:
robocopy "C:\Users\Username\Music\Amazon MP3" "E:\Amazon MP3 Backup" /E /MT:8
4. This will copy in all folders and items from the source directory to the target directory.
5. Create a scheduled task and point it to this .bat file, setup the schedule (i.e. how often to run). Robocopy won't copy over duplicate files so it will basically do an incremental copy on any new items that come up.
6. ???
7. Profit!
Since then I setup a Robocopy scheduled task to back them up to another folder. This was very simple to do but will definitely help if the PC ever crashes again.
1. Create a new folder where you want to backup the folder structure.
2. Create a new text file and then rename it to a .bat extension
3. In this text file put a command like this, replace my parameters with your own:
robocopy "C:\Users\Username\Music\Amazon MP3" "E:\Amazon MP3 Backup" /E /MT:8
4. This will copy in all folders and items from the source directory to the target directory.
5. Create a scheduled task and point it to this .bat file, setup the schedule (i.e. how often to run). Robocopy won't copy over duplicate files so it will basically do an incremental copy on any new items that come up.
6. ???
7. Profit!
