Guides

How to keep your files backed up without having to remember to. Each guide solves one problem, including when something other than Stow™ is the better answer.

• Back up your photos and video every time you plug in the drive

  For photographers and video editors on a Mac: plug the drive in when you're done, and the day's work is copied to it.

• Back up your work every time you plug in the drive (Windows 11)

  For photographers and video editors on Windows 11: plug the drive in when you're done, and the day's work is copied to it.

• Time Machine probably isn't backing up your external drive

  If your photos or footage live on an external SSD: how to check, and how to back that drive up to another one.

• Keep two external drives the same

  Your archive is on one drive and its copy on another: keep the copy matching, including what you cull and reorganise.

• Back up your Mac or PC to a NAS automatically

  Keep the NAS connected, and have your work copied to it every day without remembering to.

• Mirror your photos without losing what you delete by mistake

  A backup that matches your shoots folder also copies your mistakes. How to get back a photo, or a whole shoot, you deleted by mistake.