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# Archiving old files

It can be helpful to have the old copies of your files available. Synk's archival feature allows you to keep all of the old copies of files that would otherwise be deleted or overwritten.

## To archive old files:

1. Click on the document's Archive tab
2. Check the "Archive changed or deleted files" checkbox to enable archiving
3. In the Finder, create a writable archive folder
4. Drag the folder onto the text describing the archive folder definition
5. Select archiving options you desire

[Backup Only] By default, Synk Backup creates a new archive subfolder after every run.

[Pro/Std Only] If the "Archive changed or deleted files" checkbox is checked but the archive subfolder option is "Never," old files will be moved directly to the defined archive folder. Files are renamed to avoid overwriting existing files. (Filename.txt, Filename-1.txt, Filename-2.txt, etc.)

[Pro/Std Only] Subfolders can be created for each time that the Synk document is run, or every day, week or month. The folder is created within the defined archive folder and named after the corresponding date. (The last day of the year 2004 would be called 2004-12-31. This format correctly and unambiguously sorts the folders for easy identification.)

Archived items can be automatically deleted after a certain number of days via the "automatically delete subfolders older than X days" option.

[Std/Pro Only] The "Compress archived items" option will automatically compress archived files and folders into .zip archives, potentially saving significant amount of disk space.

Archive subfolders are created with standard permissions so if you don't want people prying, please set the permissions of the defined archive folder appropriately.

## See also

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