Home Tab Displays - Western Digital WDBBEP0010BBK User Manual

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Settings
Help
In each display, the WD SmartWare software changes the names and graphic images to match
the hardware configuration of the connected My Book and My Passport drives.
Note: In addition to the detailed Help tab information, each WD SmartWare
display provides easy access to abbreviated online help to quickly guide
you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. Whenever you are
uncertain about what to do, just click the info/online help icon in the
upper-right corner of the display:
To close the info/online help screen after reading the online help, click the
X icon in the upper-right corner of the help screen.

Home Tab Displays

The WD SmartWare software provides two different Home tab displays, depending on
which version of the software you install:
• WD SmartWare Home tab display
Use the WD SmartWare Home tab display to view hard drive content gauges and
select:
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The internal hard drive or hard drive partition that you want to back up files
from or copy retrieved files to when your computer has more than one
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The My Book or My Passport drive that you want to back up files to, retrieve
files from, or customize when you have more than one connected to your
computer
• Drive management Home tab display
Use the drive management Home tab display to view the content gauge for each
connected My Book or My Passport drive and select the one you want to
customize.
See Figure 1 and Table 1 on page 4 for a brief functional description of the Home tab
displays.
Provides . . .
One of two dialogs, depending on whether you install the full
version or the drive management version of the WD SmartWare
software.
The full version dialog provides buttons for displaying Software
Settings and Drive Settings screens.
The drive management version dialog displays only the Drive
Settings screen.
See "Settings Tab Displays" on page 13.
Instant access to:
• Detailed information about backing up and retrieving files and
making your software and drive setup selections
• WD Customer Support and software update services
See "Help Tab Display" on page 15.
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