Sorting Your Files on ThePhotoStick® Omni

Group Files By Type

When you select the button next to “Group Files By Type (i.e. photos and videos)”, ThePhotoStick® Omni will consolidate your photos, videos, documents, and audio files on ThePhotoStick® Omni into folders for easy and convenient access. ThePhotoStick® Omni stores your photos, videos, documents, and audio files on your ThePhotoStick® Omni in the folder: { ThePhotoStick® Omni drive}\My_Files\{computer name>}.

For example, if you plug your ThePhotoStick® Omni into a Windows computer and Windows assigns the drive letter E: to your ThePhotoStick® Omni device, the path to files backed up to it would be E:\My_Files.

Within the My_Files folder, you will see a folder for each device that backed up files to your ThePhotoStick® Omni device. Then, in this folder, you will see the folders My_Photos, My_Videos, My_Documents, and My_Audio. So, for example, the path to your consolidated photos would be E:\My_Files\LAPTOP-12V875\My_Photos. And the path to your videos would be E:\My_Files\LAPTOP-12V875\My_Videos.

Keep Your Folder Layout

When you select the button next to “Keep your folder layout”, ThePhotoStick® Omni will save your photos, videos, documents, and audio files using the same folder structure as on your computer starting in {ThePhotoStick® Omni drive}\My_Files\{computer name>}.

For example, you plug your ThePhotoStick® Omni into a computer that has two drives, C:\ and D:\. The computer’s name is LAPTOP-12V875, and Windows assigns the drive letter E: to your ThePhotoStick® Omni device. The files saved to your ThePhotoStick® Omni would be like the following:

Exclude Files

Exclude Photo/Video files smaller than

By default, ThePhotoStick® Omni will skip and not save any photos or videos smaller than 100 KB. Generally, any picture or video files smaller than 100 KB are system or application images and not user photos or videos. This value can be adjusted to any size that you prefer. For example, if you want all photo and video files saved no matter how small they are, you can change the value to “0”. Likewise, if you know your photos are all bigger than 2 MB (the approximate size of an 8-megapixel camera), you can change this exclude value to 2 MB. Click the “Save” button to save changes.

Exclude Documents files smaller than

By default, ThePhotoStick® Omni Plus will save all document files no matter how small they are. You can change this to exclude documents under a certain size to fine tune your documents backup.

Exclude Audio files smaller than

By default, ThePhotoStick® Omni Plus will skip audio files smaller than 800 KB. This value can be adjusted to any size that you prefer. For example, if you want all audio files saved no matter how small they are, you can change the value to “0”. Likewise, if you know your audio files are all bigger than 3 MB (the average size of an mp3 song is 3.5 MB), you can change this exclude value to 3 MB and fine tune the audio file backup. Click the “Save” button to save changes.