Re-Indexing Files On The Goflex Cinema™ Multimedia Drive; Avoiding Duplicate Files On The Multimedia Drive - Seagate GoFlex Cinema User Manual

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Re-indexing Files on the GoFlex Cinema™ Multimedia

Drive

If you've moved a lot of files around, you might want to re-index the multimedia drive to

ensure that all your files are easy to find and searchable.

To start indexing:

Press Home.

Select the GoFlex Cinema multimedia drive icon.

Press Menu, select Index, then click OK.

The multimedia drive re-indexes all of its files.

As described in "Connecting External USB Devices" on page 11, you can choose to have the

multimedia drive automatically transfer and index the files stored on the connected USB

device.

However, the multimedia drive does not ignore duplicate file names. When you select

automatic transfer, the multimedia drive transfers all the video, photo, and music files stored

on the device—even if some of those files were transferred previously.

Without some care, you could unintentionally transfer the same file or set of files to the

multimedia drive multiple times. This can create a lot of confusion as you search for specific

files, and, if what you are transferring are large files (like full-length feature films), may quickly

fill up the multimedia drive's storage capacity.

To avoid transferring multiple copies of the same files:

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Before you connect your USB device to the multimedia drive, remove any files on the

device that were copied previously. For instance, delete old photos from your digital

camera's memory card to ensure it contains your new photos only—not your new photos

plus the 300 older photos from your last holiday.

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Follow the instructions in "Moving or Copying Files with the GoFlex Cinema™ Multimedia

Drive" on page 20.

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Re-indexing Files on the GoFlex Cinema™ Multimedia Drive

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