Definitions ASICS OW DOES LICKFREE WORK HAT GETS BACKED UP Clickfree backs up content Does Clickfree back up all of my content every time? What content categories does Clickfree back up? HAT DO NEED BEFORE START ACKING UP MY CONTENT...
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide OW DO CHANGE HOW LICKFREE RESTORES CONTENT Restoring content Choosing categories of content to be restored Choosing where to restore content to & ROWSING SEARCHING FOR MY FILES Starting from the Welcome window...
Backed-up content can quickly and easily be restored • You don’t need the DVD Transformer to restore content – if necessary, a restore can be done using only the recordable media containing the backed-up files. However, unless the DVD Transformer is not available, you should always use it for a restore.
Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide How it backs up • The first time you connect a searches for, finds, backs up and organizes all of your important content • Each subsequent time you connect the computer, you can choose to just do an update: •...
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Without the DVD Transformer, to restore your files you will likely need to run restore from multiple backups to be sure that you can restore all of your files in their most current versions.
Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, the program may not run by itself – it may need a little help. If this happens to you, don’t worry – it’s easy to get things going. We’ll show you how a little later. For details, see “What do I do if Clickfree doesn’t start automatically?” on page 36.
Other – including Stuffit and hqx files, XML, and comma-separated values files Want to know more? You can look at the details by following the steps in “How do I change how Clickfree does backups?” on page 13 without making any changes. HAT DO...
Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide – ERO EFFORT BACKUP REALLY Unless you stop the countdown by clicking a button, at the end of the countdown period Clickfree starts the backup. • If you want to let you’re done: just relax and let All you need to do is to put recordable media in your CD/DVD writer when prompted.
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide 2. Click 3. Choose whether you are backing up onto CD or DVD. Note: At this point, files you want to back up. If you don’t have enough disks, click up, and deselect some files or file categories.
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide 5. At the end of the backup, the backup disk is ejected, and you are prompted to label it: 6. Click Backup Summary backed up this time ( one ( Total column). The from all backups take up on their respective backup disks.
Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide HOOSING WHAT TO BACK UP 3. If you want Clickfree properly, and can be read, check about how this works, click 4. You can either back up all of the files in selected folders (for example, your Home folder), or you can choose the categories of content to back up (for example, Office Documents, Photos, and Videos), and the folders to search for these categories.
Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide HOOSING CATEGORIES OF CONTENT TO BE BACKED UP All of the categories are selected by default. 7. Choose the categories of content to be backed up, for example, Office Documents, Photos, and Videos.
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Clickfree searches for content to back up Before actually backing up any content, complete folders you chose, or searches the folders you chose for your chosen categories of content and adds up the sizes of all of the content it finds: Clickfree backs up your content 11.
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content Clickfree then backs up the content you chose to your backup disk(s): At the end of the backup, the backup disk is ejected, and you are prompted to label it: 13.
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide When you see the backup disk(s), and store them in a safe place. Note: Clickfree tells you to label the disk with a number and date. If you have more than one computer to back up, you should also write the computer’s name (seen on the Backup Summary screen) on the disk.
DVD Transformer you used to back up your content. You can restore files without the DVD Transformer, but it is more difficult to restore all of your files without the DVD Transformer. See “How do I restore my files using only the backup disks?” on page 30 in the Advanced topics chapter.
For details, see: • “How do I let Clickfree restore decide what to restore and where?” on page 20 • “How do I change how Clickfree restores content?” on page 24 OW DO...
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7. Choose a user from the list that contains the names of all of the users whose files have been backed up on using the DVD Transformer; if you made more than one backup for that user, choose the date/time of the backup you want to restore files from.
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide 9. Since you are letting Clickfree confirms how many files will be restored, and where they are going to be restored to: If necessary, Clickfree 10. Insert the requested backup disk. Clickfree restores your content, it shows you what is happening and how far it has gotten in the process.
♦ To change how Clickfree 1. Follow steps 1 to 5 of the previous section “How do I let Clickfree restore decide what to restore and where?” on page 20. 2. What you do next depends on whether you want to restore all or only some of your files.
Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide HOOSING WHERE TO RESTORE CONTENT TO 5. What you do next depends on whether you want to restore your content to the default folder or to somewhere else. • If you want to restore your content to the default folder, go to step 7.
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide 11. To open a Finder window at the restore folder, click the button below been restored to 12. To finish, simply unplug the DVD Transformer, eject the backup disk(s), and store them in a safe place. Note: Your content has not been deleted from your backup disks.
• Search your backup(s) for files Note: When you try to do anything with a file (for example, to open the file), Clickfree prompts you to insert the backup disk that contains the latest (most up-to-date) version of that file.
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide ♦ To browse and search for files: 1. In the Backup box select the name of the user whose files you want to search or browse for. 2. Do one of the following: •...
OW IS BACKUP DIFFERENT WHEN It makes no difference at all - just plug the DVD Transformer in to each computer to back up its users’ content. Each time you back up a user’s content for the first time, the user name is added to the drop down list of users that you see in the window.
OW DO MAKE MULTIPLE BACKUPS The first time you back up a user’s content using the DVD Transformer, a full backup. The next time you perform a backup for the same user you can choose to back up only new and changed content.
If you no longer want to keep back up history for a user, you can remove the information from the Note: Even after you remove a user from your DVD Transformer, you can still restore content from backup disks. However, information about which files are on which disk is lost.
DVD Transformer, and to reset your selections of folders and categories to be backed up and restored. For details, see “How do I change how Clickfree does backups?” on page 13 and “How do I change how Clickfree restores content?” on page...
♦ To check manually for updates: 1. On the Tools window click If the software in your DVD Transformer and your computer is up to date, click on the dialog that pops up. If an update is available, downloading the update and updating your software:...
Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide OW DO CHOOSE INDIVIDUAL FILES FOR RESTORE On the What to restore files you want to restore. You can also select and deselect individual backed-up files within a category. ♦ To select/deselect files within a category: 1.
Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide 2. Select and deselect files as you normally do in a Finder window. 3. Click The counts of Selected Files 4. When you are finished selecting files, click The restore continues. See “Choosing where to restore content to” on page 25.
Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Legal stuff Clickfree and the Clickfree Appliance Corporation. Other product names used in this guide are recognized as trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners. The information contained in this guide is provided by Storage Appliance Corporation and while we...
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