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4. Getting Started with GoFlex Home
4. Enter a name and a description for the share, then select a theme, which adds a background
image to the share.
5. Click inside the Share with box:
• Enter at least one e-mail address, or click Address Book to add e-mail addresses from
your address book.
• Click Create to create the share and send an e-mail to your recipients, or click More
Sharing Options to specify sharing options as follows:
• Click Family Accounts to make your share available to everyone on your home
network who can access your GoFlex Home.
• Click Friends to make your share available to specific people outside your home
network. Click Share until and then set a share-until date and add password
protection to your share, if you want. Shares are read only. Your friends are not
restricted from forwarding the e-mail, so keep this in mind when choosing with whom
you share.
Note: The first time you invite friends to view a share, Seagate Share prompts you for your e-mail
address, which is used as the return address on the invitation sent by Seagate Share. You
can change your e-mail address later, if you want (see page 70). If you choose to add
password protection to your share, the people you invite to view it are prompted to create
a password before they can view the share. (See "Setting Up and Managing an E-mail
Address Book for Shares" on page 68 for more information.)
• Click Everyone to make your share available (and searchable) on the Internet and
through RSS feeds, then set a share-until date, if you want.
• Click Media Devices to make your share available to the digital media devices on
your home network (see page 55).
6. By default, Allow Downloads is enabled, which lets others download the original, full-
resolution version of all the files in the share. This is particularly useful for shares that include
documents you want to share with others, because the share itself contains only a references
to files, not copies of the files themselves.
7. Click Create.
The share is created.
8. To add content to your share, in the Content panel, select the folder you want then drag and
drop either the entire folder or selected files into the share.
9. View your completed share by double-clicking the share in the Shares panel.
The share opens, showing the background you chose and the description you added during
setup. Within the share window, you have options to change the view of the contents, start a
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