On Sat, 2 May 2020 19:56:49 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

Since the OP (three levels of "" in this post) talks of a friend who
"wants to get herself a laptop", and says the OP is "not so familiar
with range of options for Windows", it sounds like a new Windows laptop
- and thus Windows 10 - is being considered.

Given that this was posted in the XP 'group only, I strongly suspect
it's a troll; however, since I'd written my answers before I spotted
that, rather than waste it _if_ it isn't a troll, I've broadened the
target 'groups. Use your discretion to decide whether to skip it.

Right ...

On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 10:13:04, "
wrote:
I use 'freefile synch'
you select the folders (rather put in exceptions'
you can have mulilple paths eg email to one location/dir and work doc in anothr
you can set differnt targets eg differnt drives
it remembers the filtes so you don't have to enter them again
you can set up to have one directional where its' truly a backup or a
mirror , that means however if you delete on pc/laptop then file is
delted on harddrive backup (i prefer to do backup of new files)

(I don't understand the above paragraph; I can't parse the "English".)

It looks like he's just describing some of the features of a program called
FreeFileSync, available he https://freefilesync.org/

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