u/Clive1792

These will purely be video files. I'll also kick off by saying I'm a dummy on this so treat me as such (I don't mean talk to me shitty, just assume I know nothing).

I've only fairly recently learned about long term storing files on USB sticks, flash drives, SSDs being a bad idea, bit rot etc. Obviously that'll be no news to you guys but it was to me.

The drive in question is a WD Elements portable drive which I understand is mechanical.

The internal 3.5" in question would be any you could get your hands on. I've some Seagate Barracuda's, I think I've a WD Blue. I've some used & 'refurbished' drives which were sold as WD Red's.

Obviously to get around losing data you want a million copys of the original in every corner of the world plus the cloud etc etc etc. I'm actually in the long process of going through all my files, deleting & sorting & trying to create a proper backup system (for now I've just dumped everything on drives B & C while I manually go through drive A).

My question is - is there any reason to not store all these video files on the WD Elements, since it's also mechanical? Should I store it on an internal drive instead for some reason?

FWIW - transfer speeds don't matter to me for what it is. To be totally clear these will be movie files, TV shows etc. Some would say "just download them again" but that's a total PITA.

I was told that if you delete from GP then you lose from your device when they're set to sync. So I ran a test & found that wasn't true (for me). The photo stayed on the phone for days until I went back & asked about it.

I was then told the photo will stay on the device for 60 days. So I ran a test again. Deleted from GP & waited to see if it would delete from the phone. Over 2 months later - still there on the phone.

But in the back of my mind I thought if I delete everything then THAT'S the time it WILL delete from the phone, so didn't do it.

My Google account started filling up rapidly and so I had to turn OFF sync. So my photos stopped syncing to my Google account well over 12 months ago.

Some photos that are still in GP are still on my phone whereas some have since been deleted.

My question is - if I turn sync back ON, would it start from scratch or if there's photos that have been deleted from GP but not my phone while sync was turned off, will these then be deleted from my phone?

Side question - any idea as to why they never deleted from my phone in the first instance when I was told they would?

SG24.

It seems I've acquired all the episodes. I'm just not too sure how to put them together in a manner that's 'readable' in Plex.

As I understand it, there's 56 episodes.

But there's specials and unassigned episodes, as well as specials and no unassigned episodes and absolute listings yet with only 55 episodes.

https://preview.redd.it/yv5y9aru75wg1.png?width=1398&format=png&auto=webp&s=ef07943de96a4c526d63297dfb6200a18b523b72

https://preview.redd.it/f4te9fru75wg1.png?width=1394&format=png&auto=webp&s=8236885e3e7c8f041cc0a50bd6930537a2ed5861

https://preview.redd.it/ipuk0bru75wg1.png?width=1390&format=png&auto=webp&s=367f3d56ad56df007daecf82988a155628ab2574

https://preview.redd.it/w66hwaru75wg1.png?width=1393&format=png&auto=webp&s=b51b53564485d6cabc7667b3b75ab340a7360a6b

https://preview.redd.it/sl7s8jru75wg1.png?width=1397&format=png&auto=webp&s=addf6d0f3bea5e9b2575a4f646a8b9fa72b02226

That's my folder structure as I acquired it.

What I want is for the episodes to display within Plex so that each episode has the correct episode title tied to it rather than just episode 1, episode 2.

I'm just confused with all these specials, non specials, unassigned, 55vs56 etc.

I've broken 2 fingers no question. One has a few breaks & all at the ends of the fingers in a crush injury. Both fingers are taped together with a plastic boot over one of them.

I get various uncomfortable/painful sensations in my hand/fingers....

* A surge of pressure that feels like my fingers are swelling & also being crushed at the same time.

* This is the most frequent one - a sensation of burning. It's as though someone has a lighter & they're burning the tip of my finger.

* Also in line with that last one it's as though the fingernail is being pried from the nail bed. I'm not talking about in terms of pressure that'd have you feeling but if you try & pull your fingernail up off the bed now you should feel some kind of burning - that feeling.

* Random buzzing in the whole fingers not just the tips. Like just a weird buzzy feeling. Sort of like tingling but I wouldn't call it tingling. Maybe it is, I'd just describe it more as a buzz.

Just short of 2 weeks in post-break.

To try & keep it brief & simple, a group chat I'm in has a person that's been added. It's just showing up as its phone number right now. When I go to view the list of people in the group I see a load of names but this one person added is just a number.

In the past when people have been added that aren't in my contacts list, I still see their icon/avatar, I'm reasonably sure it displayed their name although not 100% sure, could be wrong on that one. But this one person it's just a number, nothing else.

Why is that? Do you have to be within the physical vicinity of the person for the phones to transmit/receive off each other? As I usually am but not at this moment in time.