Slik Docs

Getting started

After installation, you will have to do some initial setup once. In the main window, there will probably be multiple Unknown Disks. Click on the Setup this drive button to create a recipe for this type of disk/card. Slik works with recipes to recognize mediadrives.

Each time you insert a disk or card that Slik does not recognize, you will have to create a recipe for it. Next time, Slik will automatically recognize similar disks.Recipe 1

Rules

Rules decide what kind of disk is inserted Ruletypes:

  • path_name: "E:"( Windows ) or "/mnt/mydisk" ( Mac/Linux)
  • disk_size: If it's larger than 2TB, it's a backup destination
  • Contains_file_or_folder: If it contains a folder DCIM/Gopro it's a GoPro

You can combine mutliple rules to decide what type of disk it is. ( If it contains a folder "DCIM/Gopro" AND it contains a file "10_Bit_Log_Encoding" it's a GoPro)

You also have different operands for the rules, like

  • contains
  • does_not_contain
  • is_exactly
  • smaller_than
  • larger_than

You can click the Test rule button to see which current attached disks match the rules.

Ingredients

Once we have our rules set up for a disk, it's time to decide what Slik should do with that disk Disktypes can be:

  • hidden: use this to hide (system-)drives that you want Slik to ignore from now on.
  • source: This is a media disk that contains fresh clips that need to be backed up.
  • destination: Your large harddisk or SSD where you want your media to be copied to. You can have multiple destination disks at the same time. Slik will copy to all of them.

Source disks

Source disks have some extra options to decide what and how to copy your media to the destination disks:

  • Label: All clips will be copied into a destination project subfolder with this label ( "/myprojects/20250101/GoPro" )
  • Preserve subfolders toggle:
    • On: All clips will be kept in there original subfolder ( like "/private/m4root/clip")
    • Off: All clips wil be stored in the root destination project folder
  • Include Extentions Filter: ONLY copy these filetypes ( like "avi, mpg, mp4, wav, mp3")
  • Exclude Extentions Filter: NEVER copy these filetypes ( like "txt, xml")