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20 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

Set it to planned backup mode, with an interval of your liking. This will reduce the number of backups it produces.

OK, that makes sense and I appreciate the help.

Regarding the EXB file being rewritten every five minutes - is that something that can be fixed?

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

My question is how it gets from the Windows computer to the NAS ? Either some program is pushing it from the PC to the NAS, or something on the NAS approaches the PC and pull it. What brand of NAS are you using ?

The NAS is a Synology. There is a Synology app that allows me to choose which files will be backed up to the NAS. Screenshot attached.

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

About your estimate: This means both PC and NAS never sleep. Which is unusual. Normally a PC will shut down through the energy manager, and a NAS will probably try to do the same. Unless it is disabled, which is not a good idea.

The PC is set to sleep never. The NAS's HDDs are set to hibernate at 20 min. I checked the history of the cloud sync and it indeed shows the EXB file being synced every five minutes, 24 hours a day on the three random days I sampled.

1 hour ago, gazumped said:

do you also have v10 installed on your system?

According to Control Panel > Programs and Features only the v6.

13 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Do you have a Backup program running on the client, or does the NAS pull a copy of the EXB file ?

To me this sounds like a sort of syncing process, that reacts to any change of the file with syncing it again and again. Maybe EN just writes a time stamp every time it updated the local database from the server (even if nothing was transferred).

If I'm understanding your question (due to my lack of tech understanding, not any fault of your communication), the NAS syncs to its cloud storage any time a file changes. According to Windows Explorer, the EXB file's time is updated every five minutes (and a few seconds) without any input from me.

I've had this setup for at least one year and haven't had this issue until about three or four months ago. That three or four months estimate is based on 29,000 (file versions on the cloud) X 5 minutes = ~145,000 = 94 days. I do not know exactly when the issue began.

8 minutes ago, gazumped said:

No,  it's not normal.  But how does your backup get to the cloud storage?

The database file is on my NAS and the NAS is synced to the cloud.

Is it normal that the EXB file is rewritten every five minutes? That did not happen prior to three or four months ago.

I just found that my cloud storage has 29,000 copies of my .exb file. It is being backed up every five minutes. I would appreciate any comments on how to troubleshoot this issue.

Evernote 6.25.2.9198 (309198) - Windows 10

If I use Web Clipper to save a web page as a Note in EN, does that Note remain accessible to me even if the web page from which it came is no longer available on the web?

I see that when I bring a Word doc (for example) into EN, it's still a Word doc (as opposed to the content as if I had copied and pasted into EN). That makes sense - the formatting is kept intact.

Q1. Are there any disadvantages of retaining the content in its Word doc form?

Q2. Can you think of any situation when it would make more sense to bring in the content only?

I am new to Evernote and I'm wondering what is a good way to begin. I have lots of notes and info, mostly in Word docs and PDFs.

Do I somehow bring those entire documents into EN or do I need to copy the contents of those documents and paste as notes into EN?

Suggestions appreciated!