Windows 8 File History - Excessive backup - Excessively saving copies of files (photos, videos, docu

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I've been using Windows 8 File History to back up my libraries, but Windows 8 keeps saying "Reconnect your drive" and "Your File History drive was disconnected for too long. To keep saving copies of your files, reconnect your drive and then run a backup."

I've seen it do this on the same day that the drive was connected earlier and copies were saved!

Is it possible that looking at the pictures/videos could also be somehow modifying the file in such a way?

Has anybody had problems with excessive backup in Windows 8 File History?

Note: I did create several custom libraries, in order for File History to backup all of my data, including data that is outside the normal libraries. Although, I do not think this is causing the issue.

I'm seeing .avi files getting re-backed-up as well.

Is Windows Indexing somehow causing this? Maybe something with thumbs.db?

 

I'm not manually re-indexing, but I'm also not modifying these files either, and yet something is triggering File History to re-back them up. The only thing I can think of is Windows Indexing?

This is becoming a serious problem, because my external hard drive is now full, and my only option is to remove the older versions of the files.

Removing older versions does not give me much of a backup, since if something happened, I could not roll back to known good versions.

Why is File History saving so many duplicate copies of my media, when I'm not making any changes to the media or metadata?!?

Does anybody know?

Thanks,

Jacob

PS: This was initially reported at Microsoft Community , and went unanswered.

 

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