I just want to know if it is safe to delete the pictures off of my computer after I transfer them to my Seagate. Will they be on the external hard drive?

You can delete pictures and personal pictures of your hard drive
hope this helps

Hi

Since there is clearly still a doubt in your mind, I recommend you do not delete the original files yet.

The only way to be 100% reassured that you have copied pictures to the external hard drive is to connect the external hard drive to a different computer and access them successfully.

It is possible to accidentally copy only the shortcuts to files on a computer to an external hard drive while leaving the actual files on the computer, so if you delete the files you are just left with shortcuts that lead to nothing.

Each copied file can be right clicked > properties to show where it is located from the Drive letter (your external dive will have a drive letter E: or F: or something similar, depending on how many total drives and partitions and card reader slots your computer has). The files size indicated will tell you if the whole file is there by repeating the procedure on the main hard drive and comparing it to the original picture's file size.

To be extra safe, if these photos are very important to you, you should back them up twice, because your external hard drive can fail, or could be droppped and damaged. If you can afford a 2nd external hard drive, or a large 32Gb USB flash Drive (if this is enough for your pictures) it may be worth considering, then you can use 1 external drive as a regular back up dive and the 2nd one as a rarely used archive drive storing regular back ups from the back up drive.

If you are thinking of deleting things from your computer, then this may be because your main hard drive is getting full. Consider asking a technician to either add a new hard drive to your desktop or laptop (if your laptop is one of the new ones that can take 2 drives) or to clone the existing main hard drive onto a new hard drive with bigger storage capacity.

This would also mean you could use the old hard drive as a 2nd external hard drive by having the technician install it in an extarnal hard drive caddy for you and then formatting it after testing that the new hard drive boots okay.

To copy:

My computer > double click on the Seagate Free Agent icon > create a folder on the external hard drive called Picture Archive > Open folders containing pictures one by one > edit > select all > right click on any of the highlighted pictures > copy > open Picture Archive > right click in empty space > paste > wait for file transfer to complete.

I hope this helps.