How to backup photos on Windows 10 computer?

OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud storage service, which allows users to store up to 15GB of data for free, and can easily upload images, data files to OneDrive without worrying about it. lost data.

In the article below, Network Administrator will guide you how to backup images on Windows 10 computer with OneDrive and how to backup images to external hard drive.

Also if your computer has not installed OneDrive, you can download OneDrive to your computer and install it here.

1. Back up photos with OneDrive

The easiest way to back up photos on your Windows 10 computer is to use OneDrive. You can sync specific folders on your computer to backup automatically with OneDrive, and therefore you won't need to worry about losing important images on your computer anymore.

Here are the steps to set up and sync OneDrive for beginners to use OneDrive.

If this is the first time you use OneDriver on the computer

If you haven't once opened the OneDrive app on your computer, you don't need to worry too much. The OneDrive setup process takes only a few minutes, and once it's set up, all your images will be synchronized.

1. Click the Start button.

2. On the new window interface that appears on the computer, scroll down to find and click OneDrive .

3. On the OneDrive window, enter your email address.

4. Click Sign in .

5. Enter your password.

6. Then click Sign in .

7. Click Next .

8. Check the box next to any folder you want to sync with OneDrive. And make sure that you have ticked the box next to the folder where you store your image.

9. Click Next .

10. Click to select Open my OneDrive folder .

If you've set up OneDrive on your computer

If you've set up OneDrive on your computer but haven't set up image sync. No problem, here's how to change folders synced with OneDrive.

1. Open File Explorer from the Start Menu, Taskbar or Desktop screen.

2. Right-click OneDrive in the left pane of Menu.

3. Click to select Choose OneDrive folder to sync .

4. Check the box next to any folder you want to sync with OneDrive. And make sure that you have ticked the box next to the folder where you store your image.

5. Click OK .

And any image in the folder you choose to sync will be stored on OneDrive.

How to transfer each individual image to OneDrive?

If you don't want to sync the entire folder to OneDrive, you just want to sync and protect some important images in your collection. The easiest way is to synchronize each image and to do this you drag and drop each image into the OneDrive folder.

1. Open File Explorer from the Start Menu, Taskbar or Desktop screen.

2. Click on the arrow icon next to OneDrive to see the folder you want to transfer photos to. You can also transfer images directly to OneDrive and arrange the following images.

3. Navigate to the image you want to backup on OneDrive.

4. Click on the image and drag the image to the OneDrive folder or OneDrive's subfolder.

If you want, you can use Ctrl + click on the image to select more files, then drag to the OneDrive folder.

2. How to backup photos to external hard drive?

Set up automatic backup with external hard drive

Before taking the steps, you need to connect the external hard drive to your computer.

1. Click the Start button.

2. On the new interface window that appears, find and click the Settings button.

3. On the Settings window, find and click Update & security .

4. Click Backup .

5. Click Add a drive .

6. Click to select a drive name.

7. Click More options . Here you will see all subdirectories in the user directory backed up by default.

8. Click to select any folder in the list Back up these folders that you do not want to back up.

9. Click Remove . Continue to delete the folders until only the folders and files you want to back up are left.

10. Scroll down to find and click Back up now to backup the images immediately.

How to change the automatic backup frequency?

By default the files will be backed up an hour, as long as your external hard drive is connected to the computer. Here are the steps to change the level of file synchronization.

1. Click the Start button.

2. On the new interface window that appears, find and click the Settings button.

3. On the Settings window, find and click Update & security .

4. Click Backup .

5. Click More options .

6. Click the down arrow icon next to Back up my files .

7. Click to select a backup option.

How to transfer each image manually to an external hard drive?

If you don't want to set up automatic backups - almost useless unless you always connect an external hard drive to your computer - you can set up moving files manually.

Before taking the steps, you need to connect the external hard drive to your computer.

1. Open File Explorer from the Start Menu, Taskbar or Desktop screen.

2. Click on the arrow icon next to OneDrive to see the folder you want to transfer photos to. You can also transfer images directly to OneDrive and arrange the following images.

3. Navigate to the image you want to back up to the external hard drive.

4. Click to select the image and drag it to the external hard drive or subdirectory in the external hard drive.

If you want, you can use Ctrl + click on the image to select more files, then drag to the external hard drive.

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Good luck!