Main Features Package contents Definitions ASICS OW DOES LICKFREE WORK HAT GETS BACKED UP Clickfree backs up content What content categories does Clickfree back up? HAT DO NEED BEFORE START ACKING UP MY CONTENT OW DO START USING MY –...
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide ESTORING MY CONTENT ’ HAT IF MY COMPUTER S INTERNAL HARD DRIVE STOPS WORKING CONTENT TO A NEW COMPUTER HAT DO NEED BEFORE CAN USE OW DO GET MY CONTENT BACK What gets restored, and to where – Default restore?
All you need to do to keep your projects, photos, videos, music etc. safe is to put the Clickfree DVD Backup into the DVD drive in your computer and let it work! No need to install software or to configure anything. Your computer knows when the has been inserted, and it runs the program automatically each time.
Want to know more? You can look at the details by following the steps in “How do I Change how Clickfree does backups? (Office only)” on page 13, or “How do I Change how Clickfree does backups? (Music, Photo)” on page 19, without making any changes.
3. Insert a Clickfree 4. Wait for the Clickfree your computer to recognize the What happens next depends on whether the Clickfree DVD contains any backed-up content. If the Clickfree DVD contains backed-up content, see “Restoring my content” on • page 26.
For details, see “What gets backed up?” on page 8. If you want to make changes to how backup is done, click • I Change how Clickfree does backups? (Office only)” on page 13, or “How do I Change how Clickfree does backups? (Music, Photo)” on page 19. Clickfree...
In Windows Vista, if the AutoPlay window appears: 1. Check Always do this for software and games 2. Click Start ClickFree Backup You only need to do this once, not every time you use Clickfree. OW DO HANGE HOW You can change: The types of content •...
Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide HOOSING CATEGORIES OF CONTENT TO BE BACKED UP 3. All of the categories are selected by default. Choose the categories of content to be backed up, for example, Text Documents, Presentations, and Financial. To include a category, for example, Presentations, in the backup, make sure that the •...
Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide again. Each folder with a You can now choose the individual folders you want to be searched by • adding and removing checkmarks in the checkboxes. For example, to search only the folder with the Help and Manual projects, uncheck the...
Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide At the end of the backup, a Backup Summary and the amount of space they take up on the DVD. When you see the Clickfree Note: Before backing up any content, needed. Each time it fills up a DVD, with a sequence number, and to insert another empty You should write the date &...
Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide To review or change what gets backed up: ♦ 1. Follow steps 1 to 4 of the procedure “How do I start using my Clickfree DVD Backup?” on page 10 2. Before the countdown reaches zero, click...
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide To look only in certain folders: ♦ Choose Search selected folders only • from My Documents To search the entire • checked To see details of a folder under • checkbox. This expands and changes the + to a -. Click the – when you want to collapse the folder again.
Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide HOOSING FILE TYPES AND SIZES TO BE BACKED UP 3. Click Types and Sizes Note: For Music, only one type is shown: Music. 1. All of the files types are selected by default. Choose the types of files to be backed up:...
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Backup DVDs as are needed: if the backup requires more than one DVD, you need to use a Clickfree DVDs. If you don’t have enough if I don’t enough Clickfree Backup DVDs?” on page 44. Clickfree searches for content to back up Before actually backing up any content, your chosen categories of content:...
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide At the end of the backup, a The Office Backup Summary backed up and the amount of space they take up on the DVD. The Music and Photo Backup Summary were backed up, and displays thumbnails of each photo in the selected folder.
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Sometimes, also, you may delete content by mistake. When these things happen, other computer users may lose valuable, sometimes irreplaceable, data. But if you lose content you’ll be really happy that you bought and used Clickfree. Your backed-up content is safe on your working computer again.
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Screenshots in this section show mostly Office Backup screens – the screens for Music and Photo backup are almost identical. You can allow Clickfree to make the decisions about what to restore and to where, but you need to confirm what Clickfree plans to do.
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide 6. Since you are going to restore your files, click 7. To restore all of your content, simply click 8. Since you are letting Restore Clickfree restores your content, it shows you what is happening – how far it has gotten in the process.
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To change how Clickfree restores content: ♦ 1. Follow steps 1 to 6 of the previous section “How do I let Clickfree restore decide what to restore and where?” on page 27: 2. What you do next depends on whether you want to restore all or only some of your files.
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide selected – their checkboxes are checked. 4. For each folder whose content you do not want to restore, click the checkbox to unselect the folder. This unselects all of the files in that folder. Or you can click the checkbox beside a file to unselect each file that you do not want to restore.
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Clickfree asks if you want to replace the existing file with the same- Keep Both. . Clickfree, without asking you , renames the remaining backed-up Skip Do this for all duplicate files skips all remaining same-name files without asking you.
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LICKFREE Because you can restore files to any computer that satisfies the requirements in “What do I need before I start?” on page 9, your Clickfree DVD Backup is ideal for moving files from one computer to another. Simply insert your Clickfree to copy the files to, and follow the steps to restore.
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide to a folder other than the original location, your program may not be able to find them. If your program displays an error message telling you that it cannot find its files, or if the program starts up but your data is missing, you will need to move the files to the proper folder.
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Browsing, Searching & Viewing your files OW DO BROWSE SEARCH From the Backup Summary Browse your backup(s) for files • Search your backup(s) for files • View backed-up files • If you insert a DVD that contains backed-up Office files, after the program starts up you see...
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide page 38 Click the Search Files • page 39 OW DO PLAY OR EMAIL MUSIC If you insert a DVD that contains backed-up Music files, after the program starts up you see this screen: To browse and play music files: ♦...
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide To browse and view photos: ♦ 1. Click View The photo viewer shows “thumbnails”, or miniature views of your photos. 2. Click the name of a folder on the left of the screen. The music files in the folder appear on the right.
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide To use a photo as wallpaper: ♦ 3. Click the photo. Make sure that only one photo is selected. 4. Click Wallpaper . The photo replaces whatever wallpaper you were using: To print photos: ♦...
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide To find out more about what you can do with the files that are displayed, see “What can I do with files from browse and search ” on page 41. OW DO SEARCH FOR MY BACKED...
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide 2. Use the combination of the file(s) you want to find: These selections are combined so that only files that match all of them are found – in this case only files in the category Artwork and Drawings, and created/last changed within the last year, and with names starting with ‘inuk’.
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide For information about what you can do with the files that are displayed, see “What can I do with files from browse and search ” on page 41. HAT CAN DO WITH FILES FROM BROWSE AND SEARCH...
When Clickfree runs, it can only back up the content that you can access from your login, and restore content to locations you have access to. Because...
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To select one or more file types in a category: ♦ 1. Click the + to the left of the checkbox. This expands the category list to show the file types that make up that category, and changes the + to a -: 2.
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Click Cancel • Backup DVDs Change your file selection till you have chosen files that will fit on the number of • Clickfree Backup DVDs you have: Uncheck one of more of the • Click one of the • Uncheck one of more of the more of the files checkboxes on the right and click OK to return to the screen that tell you how many DVDs you need.
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Repeat these steps until you can fit your backup on the number of • Clickfree ‘ HAT ARE FACTORY SETTINGS Factory settings can be used in When choosing categories and file types to be backed up – see “Choosing •...
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To add a file type: ♦ 1. Click Add File Type 2. Type the extension for the new file type, and click The new file type is added to To remove a file type: ♦ 3. Click a file type in 4.
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To change a file type: ♦ 1. Click a file type in 2. Type the new extension for the file type, and click The file type in Custom Extensions 3. When you are finished working with custom extensions, click with choosing locations to be searched. OW DO CHOOSE ANOTHER DRIVE AND On the...
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Advanced topics 2. To change the folder, click Change Folder and select the folder you want. As usual, click + to expand a folder, - to collapse the folder again. 3. To create a new subfolder, click...
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Clickfree DVD Backup 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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