Backup Preferences for ThePhotoStick® Omni

Accessing Backup Preferences

To access ThePhotoStick® Omni’s Backup Preferences, open ThePhotoStick® Omni software and click on the “Backup
preferences” button.

ThePhotoStick will recursively search any folder paths specified in its settings. By default, ThePhotoStick® Omni will start at “/Users” on Mac computers.

Where To Search

Adding a Folder Path to Scan

You can add additional search paths by clicking on the “Add…” button, browsing to and selecting the folder you would like to recursively search, then clicking “Choose”. You should now see the path added in the list of folders to scan. Click “Save” to save.

For example, if you would like ThePhotoStick® Omni to also recursively search the folder “/Users/montyp/Pictures/vacation 2020”, do the following.

• Note: Since the /Users folder is already in the scan for files list, the vacation 2020 folder will already be scanned. But, it is being used to demonstrate how to select other folders to scan if desired.
  

Removing a Folder Path to Scan

To remove a folder path to scan, select the folder path in the list, then click on “Remove Selected”.

• Note: You can select multiple folder paths at the same time by holding down the Apple Command ⌘ key when clicking on another folder path
  

To continue the example from the previous section, if you do not want your ThePhotoStick® Omni device to search your entire /Users folder and instead only search the “/Users/montyp/Pictures/vacation 2020” folder, you can remove “/Users” by selecting it and then clicking “Remove Selected”. Then, click the “Save” button to save settings.

Adding a Folder Path to Skip

You can add additional folder paths to be skipped and ignored by clicking on the “Add…” button, browsing to and selecting the folder you would like to skip, then clicking “Choose”. The folder you selected, plus any subfolders in that folder will be skipped. You should now see the path added in the list of folders to skip. Click “Save” to save settings.

For example, if you want your ThePhotoStick® Omni to scan your entire /Users folders but skip searching the Downloads folder, you can click the “Add…” button under the “Folders to skip:” section and add the Downloads folder as shown in the screenshots below:

Removing a Folder Path to Skip

To remove a directory path to skip, select the folder path in the list, then click on “Remove Selected”.
*_ Note: You can select multiple folder paths at the same time by holding down the Apple Command ⌘ key when clicking on another folder path._

For example, if you do not want ThePhotoStick® Omni to skip the “/Application” folder, you can remove “/Application” by selecting it and then clicking “Remove Selected”. Click “Save” to save settings.