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There's no doubt about it; your photos are precious. To keep them safe, your best bet is to back them up to either a cloud storage service or an external hard drive. Here's how to back up your photos on Windows 10.

How to back up your photos with OneDrive

The easiest way to back up your photos on Windows 10 is to use OneDrive. You can sync certain folders on your PC to back up to OneDrive automatically, so you won't have to worry about losing your photos. Here's how to set up and sync using OneDrive whether you're just starting out or you're already an established user.

If you need more OneDrive space than the introductory 5GB, a variety of plans are available and come bundled with Office 365.

If you're using OneDrive for the first time on your PC

Haven't yet opened the OneDrive app on your PC? No worries; setup takes less than a minute, and at the end, your photos will be synced.

1. Click the Start button.

2. Click OneDrive — you might have to scroll down a bit to find it.

3. Type your email address.

4. Click Sign in.

5. Type your password.

6. Click Sign in.

7. Click Next.

8. Click the checkbox next to any folders you want to sync with OneDrive. Make sure you check the box next to the folder holding your photos.

9. Click Next.

10. Click Open my OneDrive folder.

If you've already set up OneDrive on your PC

Have you already set up OneDrive on your PC but don't have it set to sync your photos? No problem; here's how to change which folders sync to OneDrive.

1. Launch File Explorer from your Start menu, taskbar, or desktop.
2. Right-click OneDrive from the left-side menu.

3. Click Choose OneDrive folder to sync.

4. Click the checkbox next to any folders you want to sync. Make sure you check the box next to the folder holding your photos.

5. Click OK.

Any photos in the folder you chose can now be found on OneDrive.

How to transfer individual photos to OneDrive

Not wanting to sync entire folders to OneDrive is understandable — sometimes you just want to safeguard a few photos in your collection. The easiest way to sync individual photos, and indeed any file, is to drag and drop it on the OneDrive folder.

1. Launch File Explorer from your Start menu, taskbar, or desktop.

2. Click the dropdown arrow next to OneDrive so that you can see the folder you want to transfer photos to. You can also transfer photos straight to OneDrive and organize them later.

3. Navigate to the picture you want to back up to OneDrive.

4. Click the picture and drag it to the OneDrive folder or the subfolder of choice.

That's it! If you want to get fancy, use the Ctrl + Click shortcut to select multiple files before dragging them over to OneDrive.

How to back up your photos to an external hard drive

Those of you who'd rather have a harder copy of your photos might want to back them up to an external hard drive. Windows 10 makes this as easy as possible.

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How to set up an automatic backup to an external hard drive

Before starting these steps, make sure you plug an external hard drive into your PC.

1. Click the Start button.

2. Click the Settings button — it looks like a gear.

3. Click Update & security.

4. Click Backup.

5. Click Add a drive.

6. Click a drive.

7. Click More options. Here you will see all subfolders in your user folder are backed up by default.

8. Click any folder in the Back up these folders list that you don't want backed up.

9. Click Remove. Continue removing folders until you have only the photos and files you want backed up remaining.

10. Click Back up now to back up your photos immediately. You might have to scroll up a bit to find the button.

How to change the frequency of automatic backups

By default, your files will be backed up every hour as long as the external hard drive is plugged into your PC. Here's how to change how often files are synced.

1. Click the Start button.
2. Click the Settings button — it looks like a gear.

3. Click Update & security.

4. Click Backup.

5. Click More options.

6. Click the dropdown arrow beneath Back up my files.

7. Click a backup option.

How to manually transfer photos to your external hard drive

If you don't want to set up an automatic backup — almost useless unless you always have an external hard drive plugged in — you can always move files manually. Before starting, make sure you have your external hard drive plugged into your PC.

1. Launch File Explorer from your Start menu, taskbar, or desktop.

2. Click the dropdown arrow next to your external drive so that you can see the folder you want to transfer photos to. You can also just transfer photos straight to your drive and worry about organization later.

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

4. Click the picture and drag it to the drive or the subfolder of choice.

If you want to transfer multiple files, use the Ctrl + Click shortcut to select multiple files before dragging them over to your external drive.

How do you back up your photos?

Do you use an external hard drive or do you use OneDrive? Let us know in the comments section!

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Photos User Guide

Even if you use iCloud Photos, it’s important that you always back up your library locally using one of the following methods:

• Use Time Machine: After you set up Time Machine, it automatically backs up the files on your Mac. If you ever lose the files in your Photos library, you can restore them from the Time Machine backup. For more information about setting up Time Machine, see Back up your files with Time Machine.

  WARNING: If a Photos library is located on an external drive, don’t use Time Machine to store a backup on that external drive. The permissions for your Photos library may conflict with those for the Time Machine backup.

• Manually copy your library to an external storage device: Drag the Photos library (by default in the Pictures folder on your Mac) to your storage device to create a copy.

If you have more than one photo library, be sure to back them all up.

Important: If any of your image files are stored outside your photo library, those files (known as referenced files) aren’t backed up when you back up your library. Be sure to back up those files separately. To make it easier to back up all your image files at once, you can consolidate referenced files into your library. See Change where Photos stores your files.

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