How Do I Backup My MP4 Player?

You have spent hours creating your Photo Album on your MP4 Player, you have downloaded music from places that are no longer available, and you may also have recorded several hours of a lecture or conversation. All of this is valuable and you do not want to risk losing it. The best thing is to create a backup on your computer that can reinstate all files in one go from your computer.

You want to backup your MP4 Player files to your computer? This task is such a simple task. And while it is such a simple task why not back your player up once a week or so. Once you have connected your MP4 Player Player to your PC everything is driven from your computer. Think of your player being just another drive you have. Instead of it being a drive in your computer it is a drive exactly like a computer drive.

Getting Ready to Backup
First of all you need a location to backup your files. I chose to backup my MP4 Player in a folder called "My MP4 Player" which is directly stored on c: drive as "c://My Folders". In this folder I have "My MP4 Player", "My Pictures", "My Faxes", "My Movies", "My Photographs", "My Illustrations" and so on.

Connecting
1. Connect your MP4 Player to your computer via the USB port and USB cable provided. If you have problems in connection consider going to "Solving Connection Problems".

2. Navigate on your computer START/My Computer/Removable Drive F:" or whatever name your player is given "E:", "F:" or any other letter.

3. Double click on "Removable Drive F:"

You are now seeing a list of all the folders and files you have on this player.

Backup Completion
Open the folder "My MP4 Player" or whatever folder you prepared before hand.

Now you should have the Removable Drive F:" folder open and the "My MP4 Player" folder. Select all items(CTRL-A) in your "Removable Drive F:" folder and drag these items over to your "My MP4 Player" folder, and release the mouse button while you hover over the "Removable Drive F:" folder.

If you are doing this for the first time all files and folder will be copied from your player to your computer. If you follow these instructions the second time -- lets say a week later -- you will have a dialog box turning up each time a folder or a file is found to be already in the "My MP4 Player" folder. The first time it appears select that you want the folder or file to be over written.

Planning Backups
If you want to be a little more sophisticated in organizing backups you might want to create a different folder for each week of a month. These might be "MP4 Player Backup 1", "MP4 Player Backup 2" and so on. If you backup in folders 1,2,3 &4 and then start again at folder 1 the next month, you are always going to have a rolling month of backups, so that if you find that something went really wrong with your player, and you had backed up with that mistake for two weeks, you could go back to a time when that error was not present.