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Figure 9. Home Screen
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 9)
• Backup screen—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your
important data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos (see
Figure 10 on page 15)
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MY BOOK ESSENTIAL
USER MANUAL
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