Wd Smartware Software Overview; Wd Smartware Home Screen - Western Digital WDBAAA2500Axx - My Passport Essential User Manual

WD SmartWare Software 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 Passport 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 is available after selecting Install WD SmartWare or
Retrieve a backup and installing the software. It has four tab-selected screen options:
• Home—Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in or
connected to your computer (see Figure 7 on page 10)
• Backup—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos (see Figure 9 on
page 15)
• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see
Figure 12 on page 22)
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
(see Figure 10 on page 18)
On the WD SmartWare 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 tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Passport drive
• Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Passport drive to any
location on your computer
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