I recently got a pCloud subscription to back up my neurotically tagged and organised music collection.

pCloud says a couple of things about backing up folders from your local drive to their cloud:

(pCloud) Sync is a feature in pCloud Drive. It allows you to connect locally-stored folders from your PC with pCloud Drive. This connection goes both ways, so if you edit or delete the files you’re syncing from your computer, this means that you’ll also be editing them or deleting them from pCloud Drive.

That description and especially the bold part leaves me less than confident that pCloud will never edit files in my original local folder. Which is a guarantee I dearly want to have.

As a workaround, I’ve simply copied my music folder (C:\Users\<username>\Music) to the virtual P:\ drive created by pCloud (P:\My Music). I can use TreeComp for manual one-way syncing, but that requires I remember to sync manually regularly. What I’d really like is a tool that automatically updates P:\My Music whenever something changes in C:\Users\<username>\Music, but will 100% guaranteed never change anything in C:\Users\<username>\Music.

Any tips? Thanks in advance!

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