Find your computer backups in Drime

The folders you back up from a computer with Drime Desktop appear in the Backups section of the sidebar. To set up a backup, see Back up folders from your computer.

#Open your backups

1. In the sidebar, click Backups.

2. Find your computer in the list.

   Each device shows its name, what it Contains, its size and when it was Last seen.

3. Open the device to browse the folders backed up from it.

If no computer is backed up yet, the page shows No backup devices yet with Install the Drime desktop app on the device you want to back up. As soon as you sign in, this device shows up here automatically. Click Download Drime for Windows to get the app.

#Backups are read-only on the web

A backup mirrors folders of your computer, so it can only change from that computer. On the web:

• you can't upload into a backup folder;

• you can't restore an earlier version of a backed-up file;

• files in your backups don't show in search results.

Your backups count toward your storage. See Why my storage used doesn't match my files.

#Get back a file deleted from a backup

1. In the sidebar, click Trash, then the Backups tab.

   

2. Right-click the file and choose Restore to….

3. Pick a folder of your Drive, outside your backups.

A file deleted from a backup can't go back into it. See Restore deleted files from the Trash.

#If it doesn't work