Wd Smartware Home Screen - Western Digital My Passport Essential User Manual

WD SmartWare Home Screen

The WD SmartWare Home screen has four tab-selected screen options:
• Home—Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in or
connected to your computer (see Figure 7 on page 10)
• Backup—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos (see Figure 9 on
page 16)
• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see
Figure 12 on page 23)
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
(see Figure 10 on page 19)
On the WD SmartWare Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being
categorized with the drop-down selection box under the name of your computer. After
you select a different drive, the WD SmartWare software identifies 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 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, working files like .tmp and .log
files, and any files that are stored in a Temp folder.
• 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 pointer over a category shows the number of files in the category.
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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