Specifying The Number Of Backup Versions - Western Digital My Passport User Manual

By default, the WD SmartWare software creates and uses a Retrieved Contents
subfolder in your My Documents folder. To specify a different folder:
1.
Either create a new folder or determine which existing folder you want to use.
2. Click the Settings tab to display the Software Settings screen (see Figure 11 on
page 29).
3. On the Software Settings screen, click Retrieve Folder to display the Set Retrieve
Folder dialog:
4. On the Set Retrieve Folder dialog:
a. Click Browse and use the browse function to identify the new retrieve folder.
b. Click Apply.

Specifying the Number of Backup Versions

The WD SmartWare software can keep up to 25 older versions of each file. If you
overwrite or delete a file by mistake, or want to see the file a couple of versions ago, the
WD SmartWare software has a copy for you. You always have the most-recent specified
number of versions of each file available for retrieves, and you can choose to keep from
1 to 25 versions.
Keeping more versions:
Improves your ability to retrieve files from a longer back-in-time period
Consumes more disk space
1.
Click the Settings tab to display the Software Settings screen (see Figure 11 on
page 29).
2. On the Software Settings screen, click File History to display the Set File History
dialog:
3. On the Set File History dialog:
a. Use the selection box to specify the number of backup versions that you want to
keep for each file, from 1 to 25.
b. Click Apply.
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