External Hard drive...

I just purchased an external hard drive to store all of my photos on. I have backed them all up on CD and moved them to the ehd but now I am wondering if I can safely delete them from my regular hard drive? does that make sense? I got the ehd to save space on my computer and now I am afraid to loose my pics!! Do I just delete all the files out of "my pictures" and use my photoshop program from drive G?
Thanks!
Donna

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Permalink Reply by vjekoslav antic on October 4, 2008 at 12:49pm

If you have backup on CD and copy on external HD than just delete from My pictures folder to get more space on C: .
Your computer will be faster than and if it crash one day,you have all in G safe stored.You only make regular backup copy
on cd if for some reason external HD crash.Some people make 2 backup cd copy but I think one is enough.

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Permalink Reply by Sean on October 31, 2008 at 11:34am

I keep all my pic on my external and copy them to my comp to work on them keeping the original safe, then save the modified image in a finished folder on the external.

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Permalink Reply by Jack Larson on November 6, 2008 at 4:15pm

After storing them on my HD with various backups, I now download everything to my external HD. If I have some photos that I think are exceptional, I immediately put them on a CD. Once a month, I backup the month's files to a DVD. Then about every 3 or 4 months, I put my best photos in a folder and then put them on an archival DVD. Freeing up my computer's HD space seems to help everything run faster (and smoother). When I travel, I use a Western Digital Passport External HD.

PSCS4, LR2, and NX2 all have had no problems accessing from my external HD.

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Permalink Reply by Trev0r Chr!st!ne on November 8, 2008 at 9:17am

redundancy is the key. For me my most important files have 3 layers of redundancy. I have them safe on a separate partition. Then that is updated using the Microsoft Sync Toy to my file server. Then once a month I sync those files from my file server to an external hard drive that I immediately place into my fireproof safe once complete. If all else fails that external hard drive is ONLY used to sync or restore.