DocAttic gathers the documents, scans, PDFs and records scattered across your Downloads, Desktop, old drives and backup exports into one organized archive on your own computer. It never logs into your accounts and nothing is uploaded.
Point DocAttic at any folder, drive, or export and it collects the documents it finds — PDF, Word/Excel/PowerPoint, OpenDocument, text, Markdown, ebooks and more. It looks inside archives too (zip, tar.gz, 7z, rar and the rest) and unpacks them automatically.
Password-protected zip, 7z and rar archives are opened too — DocAttic asks for the password, says if it did not work, and lets you try again or skip the archive. Tick “Apply to all remaining protected archives” to answer once — a password or a skip — for every protected archive the scan still meets.
Add your folders/drives, choose where the archive should go, and click Build my archive. Every unique document is copied into the archive, filed by year. Your originals are never touched.
The same document usually lives in several places — a Downloads folder, a drive, an email attachment. DocAttic compares files by content, so an identical document is stored once no matter how many copies it finds or what they're named.
Point a later run at the same archive folder to fold in newly-found documents. DocAttic remembers what it already has, so re-scanning a drive or an overlapping backup copies only what's genuinely new.
Progress is saved as it goes, so a very large collection is safe to stop, or to lose to a crash or power cut — just run it again on the same folders and it picks up where it left off without re-copying anything.
You can stop a run at any time with the Cancel button — every document already added to the archive stays put.
Every Windows drive has a few folders the system keeps to itself, such as $Recycle.Bin and System Volume Information. Nothing can read them, DocAttic included.
If you point a run at a whole drive it steps over those folders and carries on, then tells you how many it had to skip — in the run log, and as an “unreadable” count in report.txt. The count is there so a smaller number of documents than you expected is explained rather than mysterious.
A folder you own but have locked down with permissions is counted the same way. If the number looks high, check the log for which folders they were.
The free trial is the full app but keeps up to a few hundred files so you can see it work on your own documents. To remove the limit, click Enter license and paste the license from your purchase email.
One license can cover several apps in the Attic family (DocAttic, EmailAttic, and so on) — a suite or bundle key unlocks each app it lists. A key that doesn't include DocAttic won't unlock this app; it stays in trial.
DocAttic is in English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português and 日本語, and opens in the language your computer uses. The globe button at the top right of the main window switches language at any time; the window changes on the spot. Other languages arrive as free language packs: a small plain-text file from DocAttic.com/languages. On the Language screen, link 1 opens that page, button 2 installs a downloaded pack, button 3 switches to it. DocAttic never connects to the internet to fetch one.
DocAttic never connects to the internet to move your documents. All reading, de-duplicating and copying happens locally. Your source files are opened read-only and are never modified.
Email support@DocAttic.com. Feedback is always welcome at feedback@DocAttic.com.