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MY PASSPORT

USER MANUAL

WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW – 18

Backup Tab Displays

The WD SmartWare software provides one of two different Backup tab displays,

depending on how you want to select files to back up:

• By category—As shown in the content gauges

• By file—As shown in the folder structure of your computer’s internal hard drive

Use the WD SmartWare Backup tab displays to select the files or categories of files that

you want to back up and control the backup operation.

See Figure 9 and Table 2 on page 19 for a brief functional description of the Backup tab

displays.

Your computer content

gauge (continued)

Note that:

•The System category, shown against a dark gray background,

includes all of your operating system files that are not available

for a category-type backup, including: system files, program

files, applications, working files like .tmp and .log files, and any

files that are stored in a Temp folder.

When you select and run a file-type backup, the name of the

System category changes to Excluded and it then includes all

of the files that were not included in your file backup.

• Because they change so frequently, Outlook .pst files are only

backed up once every 24 hours. This exclusion does not apply

to other mail application files.

•The Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray

background, includes the files that you have retrieved from a

prior backup. They, too, are not available for a category-type

backup.

• Hovering the pointer over a category displays the number of

files in the category.

My Passport drive content

gauge

After installing the WD SmartWare software—before running your

first backup or copying any files to the drive, the content gauge for

your My Passport drive shows only a small number of files in the

Additional Files category. These are the system files and hidden

files that your computer’s operating system put there when you

installed the drive.

After running a backup or copying files to the drive, this content

gauge shows all of the files in the same categories as the content

gauge for your computer’s internal hard drive (see “Your computer

content gauge” on page 17).

Table 1. Home Tab Functional Description (Continued)

Display Component Description

1 2 ... 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ... 76 77

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