Western Digital WDBACX7500Axx - My Passport Essential SE User Manual page 19

• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see Figure
12 on page 25)
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
(see Figure 10 on page 21)
On the Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the drop-
down selection box under the name of your computer. By selecting a different drive, the
system will identify the categories of files on that drive. Then click the:
• Backup tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Passport drive
• Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Passport drive to any
location on your computer
In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are available for
backup are shown against a blue background in six categories where:
This file category
Documents
Mail
Music
Movies
Pictures
Other
For a complete list of all included file extensions, search for Answer ID 3644 in the WD
Knowledge Base at http://support.wdc.com.
Note that:
• The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes all of your
operating system files that are not available for backup. Files that are not backed
up include system files, program files, applications, and working files like .tmp and
.log files.
• The Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray background, shows the
files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. They, too, are not available for
backup.
• Hovering the cursor over a category displays the number of files in the category.
In the Content Gauge for your My Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes
all of the files shown in the used space portion of your drive properties. This space is not
available for backups.
Note: The small number of files that are shown in the Additional Files category when
you first install the WD SmartWare software—before performing your first backup—
represent the system and hidden files that your computer's operating system put there
when you installed the drive.
Includes files with these extensions
.doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document
extensions
.mail, .msg, .pst., and other mail extensions
.mp3, .wav, .wma, and other music extensions
.avi, .mov, .mp4, and other movie extensions
.gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture extensions
Others that do not belong in the five main categories
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