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MY PASSPORT ELITE

USER MANUAL

RETRIEVING BACKED UP FILES – 24

Retrieving Backed Up Files

This chapter includes the following topics:

About Retrieving Files

Retrieving a File

Retrieving a Folder

Retrieving an Earlier Version of a File or Deleted Files

Retrieving All of Your Content

About Retrieving Files

The WD SmartWare software makes it easy for you to retrieve files that have been

backed up on your My Passport drive and either:

• Restore them to their original locations on your computer

• Copy them to a special retrieve folder

Retrieve is generally a five-step process:

1. Choose the drive to retrieve content from on the Home screen.

2. Choose the backup you want to retrieve content from. (This is only required if you

have created several different backups on your My Passport drive.)

3. Choose whether content will be retrieved to a special retrieval folder or to the original

location.

4. Choose what content to retrieve, either files, folders, or everything.

5. Retrieve the content.

Retrieving a File

After selecting the drive on the Home screen, you can retrieve files from your My

Passport drive. To retrieve a file from your drive:

1. Click the Retrieve tab to display the Retrieve screen (see Figure 12 on page 25).

2. In the Backed Up Volumes box, select the WD SmartWare volume that you want to

retrieve a file from and click Select Destination to display the Select a destination

for retrieved files screen (see Figure 13 on page 25).

3. On the Select a destination for retrieved files screen:

IF you want to copy your

retrieved content to . . .

THEN . . .

Its original location, a. Select the To the Original Places option.

b. Click Select Files to display the Select content to

retrieve... screen and proceed to step 4 on page 26.

A retrieved content folder, a. Select the In the Retrieved Content Folder option.

b. If you want to specify a different retrieve folder, click

Browse and use the browse function to identify the

new retrieve folder.

c. Click Apply

to save and implement the new retrieve

folder.

d. Click Select Files to display the Select content to

retrieve... screen and proceed to step 4 on page 26.

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