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The program has a warning message should the target drive run out of space (based on the last backup size). In some cases, though, the size of the last backup is indeed large, but next backups are small enough to fit to the disk. In some systems it's not possible to know how much free space the target drive has. In such case the rpogram wil also give a warning. It might be you are aware of the situations described above and would like to disable the watning. For this, check the option "Ignore "The target drive might run out of space ..." message".

Each time you change any files in your system, Windows system is activating the Archive attribute (flag), indicating the file is not yet backed up and should be included next time. The flag is also activated for files that are copied or moved to the new location. "Use archive attribute to detect file changes with incremental and differential backups" is the option to indicate if you would like to use file attributes maintained by the Windows or not. By default this option is active, meaning the Archive attribute is used by the program when creating backups. When making incremental, differential or inverse backups, the attribute is checked and only files with active Archive attribute are included to the backup. After the file is included to the backup, the Archive attribute is cleared, indicating the file has been backed up. With full backups all files are included to the backup, no matter what the Archive attribute status is.

If the Archive attribute management is disabled or not working in your system, the program can't know if the file is changed or not, based on the Archive attribute. In such case, you can disable the attribute usage. When the option is disabled, the program is using last backup date and file change date to compare if the file is changed after the last backup or not and shoudl be included to the backup or not. This method works just fine also. The only thing you have to remember is that when you change system date and the Archive attribute usage is disable, the file might be left out from the backup if it's changed, but you have moved back the system date.

If the option "Show recent backup list on the main window" is checked, you will see the list of recent backups in the main window. If for some reason you woudl like to hide that list, just uncheck this option.

By default, all folders (including hidden folders) are shown in the folder selection list (when selecting data to back up). It is important that you won't miss any folder, even if it's hidden, when selecting what data to back up. If for some reason you do not want to see hidden folders in the selection list, check the option "Do not show hidden folders in the folder selection list".

If you do not want to see the system tray icon, you can check the option "Hide system tray icon". If the program is minimized to the system tray, and its icon is hidden, the only way to bring it up, is by using the system wide hotkey.

In the Professional version you can check the "Show backup groups" option. If active, you can set additional group value to each backup task. This is useful when having a lot of different tasks and you would to organize them a bit. For example, you can hide (collapse) some group from the tasks list, back up entire group, etc. You can add additional or other columns for grouping other than the single Group name that's used by default. For this just drag the column to the gray panel above the list. To remove grouping, drag the columns back to the list and uncheck this option.

In this panel you also have the option to specify what the double-click on the task should do in the main window. Default action is to make a backup from the task you double-click, but you can change this action to "Edit task" and "Start backup for entire backup group".

System wide hotkey can be used to bring up the program from anywhere in your system. No matter what other program is currently active - press this key combination on the keyboard and the program is activated. To change the hotkey, click on the edit box and press the desired key combination. Please note that if some other program is using the same key combination defined in TK8 Backup, the hotkey may not work. In case the hotkey is not working, please change it. When changing, TK8 Backup does not allow you to set hotkeys already active in your system.

Security

In the Professional version you can password protect program options to prevent unauthorized changes. Also, if the program is running in the hidden mode, and system wide hotkey is pressed, the password is required to bring it up.