With its extensive suite of tools, Disk Drill has everything you need to recover, backup, and protect your files. You can always access this information, не even if you don’t have Disk Drill active it can let you know when your disk is due for a cleanup or backup. You can check disk temperature, see how much disk space you have left, and stay up to date on your disk’s uptime and power cycle count. You can click the icon to see a breakdown of your selected disk’s vitals. The icon itself will display your drive temperature. If you enable S.M.A.R.T monitoring, the app will place an icon in your Menubar. How to monitor SMART status (disk health)

Click it and select “Configure Data Protection” to adjust your settings as needed.When you mouse over the disk, a small gear icon will appear at the far right of the window. To turn on data protection, just click the shield.Once it’s enabled, a small shield icon will appear next to all disks in the Disk Drill window.

This will help the app keep your files primed for recovery at all times. When you first start up Disk Drill, you’ll be prompted to enable data protection.

You can then select files and folders you don’t need and click “Remove.”.

You’ll be shown a visual map, which you can refine by clicking the “Target” icon.

Click the “Cleanup” button and select the drive.

The app helps you remove unneeded files by giving you a visual map of your files and letting you narrow down the files you’d like to remove. This backup may take some time to complete.

You’ll then be prompted to select a destination for the backup select a destination and click “save.”.

Select the disk or partition that you’d like to save and click the “backup” button at the right of the window.

To backup a disk or partition, click the “Backup” icon, and click “backup into DMG image.”.

Once you’ve selected the files you’d like to get back, specify where you’d like to recover them to and press “Recover” button.

The app will scan for corrupted and deleted files, and a series of drop down menus let you customize the search range.

Select the disk you’d like to recover from.

The app lets you scan any disk or partition to detect damaged or deleted data and recover lost files. Plus, the app’s built in diagnostic tools, including a disk space analyzer and automatic risk alerts, can help you keep your Mac running at peak performance. We'll show you how you can restore damaged or corrupted files, replace unintentionally deleted files, manage data backups, help you eliminate unnecessary files, and provide data protection for important documents with the Disk Drill app. Try free ✕ How to use Disk Drill to protect Mac disks and recover files

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