Wd Smartware Overview; Wd Smartware Home Screen - Western Digital My Book WDBAAG0010HCH User Manual

WD SmartWare Overview

WD SmartWare software is an easy-to-use tool that gives you the power to:
• Secure your drive—In drive settings, create a password to protect your encrypted
drive from unauthorized access or data theft.
• Protect your data automatically—Automatic, continuous backup instantly makes
a copy whenever you add or change a file.
Note: Automatic backup protection is continuous for as long as your My Book
drive is connected to your computer. Then, whenever you disconnect and
reconnect the drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare software rescans your
computer for new or changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup
as before.
• See your backup as it happens—Seeing is believing. Visual backup organizes
and displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your
backup.
• Retrieve lost files effortlessly—Bring back your valuable data to its original
location whether you've lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.

WD SmartWare Home Screen

The WD SmartWare Home screen (available after installation and the initial backup and
security setup) provides four tab-selected options:
• Home screen—Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in
or connected to your computer (see Figure 6 on page 10)
• Backup screen—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your
important data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos (see
Figure 7 on page 14)
• Retrieve screen—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see
Figure 10 on page 22)
• Settings screen—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup
parameters (see Figure 8 on page 18)
On the Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the drop-
down selection box under the name of your computer. By selecting a different drive, the
system will identify the categories of files on that drive. Then click the Backup or
Retrieve tab to either back up from or retrieve files to a location other than your
computer's main hard drive.
In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are available
for backup are shown against a blue background in categories that are based on the
following folders on your computer:
• Music
• Movies
• Pictures
• Mail
• Documents
• Other
Each category includes all of the files in the represented folder except the Other
category, which includes all of the files in all other folders on your computer.
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