External drives · Checking your drive
Does Storage Studio keep checking that my moved files are still safe on the drive?
Short answer: Yes. Light checks run regularly, a deeper one about weekly, and more when the drive reconnects. Problems appear as a single plain-English notice in Background Activity, and Storage Studio never hides missing data. Keep a backup too.
Yes. Besides checking each move as it happens, Storage Studio keeps an eye on what it has moved: a quick, lightweight check runs regularly, and a deeper one runs occasionally (at most about once a week, so it doesn't keep your drive busy). Checks also run when the drive reconnects.
If something is missing, orphaned or unexpectedly changed, you get one plain-English notice in Background Activity rather than a flood of alerts — and Storage Studio never covers a problem up, for example by putting an empty folder where missing data should be. It can't prevent a drive from failing, so keep a backup.