Imagine your documents, photos, videos, and other files are gone forever by sudden system crashes or storage device failures. Quite scary, right? However, to prevent this from happening, Microsoft has ...

Open the OneDrive desktop app. Navigate to Settings ->Sync and backup ->Manage backup. Toggle on all desired folders. Once ...

Backing up your files, ideally in multiple locations, is essential if you don't want to lose any data. Your documents, images, and videos can disappear if anything happens to your computer. It's also ...

Copying large files has always been problematic on my Windows 11 PC. Luckily, I now use another built-in copy feature called Robocopy for many file transfer tasks. Here’s how you can use this robust ...

What is Drive for desktop compared to the web client? You’re likely familiar with Google Drive’s web client. Within any browser, you can access all of your files ...

Reconnect it and then tap or click to keep saving copies of your files. Your files will be temporarily copied to your hard drive until you reconnect your File History drive and run a backup. In most ...

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After viewing the article that I wrote titled “Are you obeying new e-records rules?” a faithful reader suggested that I write an article about how to backup computer files. Even though I wrote an ...

Admit it, many of us don’t back up our important files because we’re too busy, don’t know how, or just don’t care enough to do it. But we will wish we had when the inevitable happens. Whether it’s a ...

Word will save new documents to the cloud by default. AutoSave will also be enabled by default. You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft has long been pushing ...

We independently review everything we recommend. We may make money from the links on our site. Learn more› By Melanie Pinola Searching for a file on your computer is a whole lot easier than digging ...