Using Default Sync; Using Manual Sync - Seagate ST905004CEA2E1-RK - FreeAgent Theater+ - Digital Multimedia Receiver User Manual

7. Using the FreeAgent Theater for Macintosh Application
You do not need to create any folders on the destination drive. The appropriate folders are
created on the drive at the time you choose to synchronize your media files, as described
below:
• When the user's default Movies, Pictures and Music folders are used as the source, these
folders are added to a folder on the external drive called user name_MAC1, where "user
name" is the user's name and "MAC1" is the computer name.
• When you manually select a source folder outside of your default folders, a folder called
volume name_MAC1 is created on the external drive, which contains Folder1, Folder2,
etc., where "volume name" is the name of the volume and "MAC1" is the computer name.

Using Default Sync

The FreeAgent Theater application allows you to use your default media folders (Movies,
Pictures, Movies) as the source folders for synchronizing with the external drive.
1. Connect the external drive to your computer.
2. In the right panel of the application window, select Use my Movies, Pictures and Music
folders to use your computer's default media folders as the source folders. These are the
folders that were automatically created when the user account was set up on your computer.
3. Click Sync Now to synchronize the files now.

Using Manual Sync

Manual Sync allows you to select specific folders and media file types for synchronization
and to choose the sync settings.
1. Connect the external drive to your computer. Make sure that the drive appears in the left
panel of the FreeAgent Theater window.
If more than one drive is connected to your computer, select the appropriate drive for
synchronization. Each drive has its own settings.
2. Click the + button and then navigate to the source media folders. (Click the – button to
remove an item from the list.) When the new window appears, select the files and folders to
sync and then click Add to Sync.
3. Below Sync only these files, select one or more of the file types to filter what is
synchronized. For example, select Movies and then leave Pictures and Music unchecked if
you only want to sync movie files. The following file types are supported:
• Photos (bmp, gif, jpeg, jpg, png, tiff)
• Music (aac, ac3, asf, flac, m4a, mp3, ogg, ra, rm, rmvb, wav, wma, m3u, pls)
• Videos (asf, avi, dat, divx, flv, ifo, iso, m2ts, mkv, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg, mts, rm, rmvb,
sami, smi, srt, sub, tp, trp, ts, vob, wmv, xvid)
4. Click Sync Now.
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