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# Computers
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Every computer that backs up folders to your account has its own entry in Proton Drive. The
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**Computers** page lists this computer and every other one, including computers that run the
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official Windows or macOS app.
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- [What you can do](#what-you-can-do)
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- [Syncing several computers](#syncing-several-computers)
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- [Replacing or reinstalling a computer](#replacing-or-reinstalling-a-computer)
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## What you can do
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**On this computer:**
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- See its synced folders and their state, and add more with **Add Folder to Sync**. See
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[Synced folders](SYNCED_FOLDERS.md).
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- **Restore Folders…** brings back folders that are backed up under this computer but not synced
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here yet, for example after a reinstall.
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**On another computer**, from its menu:
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| Choose | When | What happens |
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| **Browse Files** | You need a file from it | Its backup opens read-only, like My files |
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| **Restore to This Computer…** | You want a copy of its folders here | Its folders download here and stay part of its backup |
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| **Sync With This Computer…** | Both computers should share the same folders, such as a desktop and a laptop | Both keep the folders in step. See [below](#syncing-several-computers) |
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| **Continue This Backup Here…** | This computer replaces it, after a reinstall or with new hardware | This computer takes over its backup. See [Recovery](RECOVERY.md) |
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| **Move to This Computer…** | You switch for good, for example from Windows to Linux | Its folders move into this computer's backup and are offered for syncing here. The other computer stays in the list, without those folders |
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`pdfs devices list` shows the same computers with their IDs, for the commands in the
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[command-line reference](CLI.md#computers).
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## Syncing several computers
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Two or more computers can sync the same folders through one backup in Proton Drive.
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1. Sync the folders on the first computer as usual.
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2. On the second computer, open **Computers**, open the menu of the first computer and choose
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**Sync With This Computer…**. From a terminal: `pdfs devices join UID`, with the ID from
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`pdfs devices list`.
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3. Choose which of its folders to sync here, and where.
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From then on, both computers sync into that backup:
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- A folder you add later on either computer lands there too. A folder with the same name joins
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the one already there.
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- A change on one computer reaches the other within about two minutes.
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- When both computers change the same file within that time, each keeps the other's version under
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the original name, and its own as a conflict copy named after it. See
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[Conflicts](SYNCED_FOLDERS.md#conflicts).
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Folders that were synced on this computer before it joined stay in its own backup.
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## Replacing or reinstalling a computer
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Your synced folders are on Proton Drive, so a new or reinstalled computer can pick up where the
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old one stopped. [Recovering on a new computer](RECOVERY.md) walks through it step by step, and
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explains what is lost with a machine and what is not.
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