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MY BOOK ELITE

USER MANUAL

CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED – 15

• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see Figure

13 on page 26)

• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters

(see Figure 11 on page 22)

On the Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the drop-

down selection box under the name of your computer. By selecting a different drive, the

system will identify the categories of files on that drive. Then click the:

• Backup tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Book drive

• Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Book 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:

For a complete list of all included file extensions, search for Answer ID 3644 in the WD

Knowledge Base at http://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, and working files like .tmp and

.log 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

backup.

• Hovering the cursor over a category displays the number of files in the category.

In the Content Gauge for your My Book drive, the Additional Files category includes all

of the files shown in the used space portion of your drive properties. This space is not

available for backups.

Note: The small number of files that are shown in the Additional Files category when

you first install the WD SmartWare software—before performing your first backup—

represent the system and hidden files that your computer’s operating system put there

when you installed the drive.

This file category Includes files with these extensions

Documents

.doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document

extensions

Mail

.mail, .msg, .pst., and other mail extensions

Music

.mp3, .wav, .wma, and and other music extensions

Movies

.avi, .mov, .mp4, and other movie extensions

Pictures

.gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture extensions

Other

Others that do not belong in the five main categories

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