# Copying...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copying/447835>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 3, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copying/447835 "2008-05-03T01:11:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copying/447835/1 "2008-05-03T01:11:24Z")

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Apparently, I have 51 movies and 108 episodes of TV shows backed up on my old external hard drive.

I know this because I kept staring at a transfer bar as I moved those files to my new external hard drive.

It’s not as bad as when I loaded my 30-gig music library onto a seven-year old laptop through a USB 1 connection, but I’m pretty sure that progress bar is never, ever going to fill up entirely.

(Edited because I’m an idiot.)