Home Tab Display - Western Digital My Passport User Manual

The . . . tab display
Settings
Help
In each display, the WD SmartWare software changes the names and graphic images to match
the hardware configuration of the connected devices.
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 Display

Use the Home tab display to view device content gauges and select:
The source device or drive partition that has the files you want to back up
The target device or device partition/network share that you want to back up files to
or retrieve files from
See Figure 8 on page 18 and Table 1 on page 19 for a brief functional description of the
Home tab display.
Provides . . .
Buttons for opening dialogs to:
Specify the number of backup versions that you want to keep
for each file
Specify a different destination folder for retrieved files
Automatically check for WD SmartWare software updates
Configure a remote Dropbox folder for access by the
WD SmartWare Pro software
See "Settings Tab Display" on page 29.
Instant access to:
Detailed information about backing up and retrieving files and
making your software setup selections
WD Customer Support and software update services
See "Help Tab Display" on page 30.
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