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MY BOOK ELITE

USER MANUAL

BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES – 19

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.

To back up other hard drives on your computer, click the Home tab and select an

alternative drive from the drop-down menu.

Backing It All Up

To back up all of your computer files:

1. Click the Backup tab to display the Backup screen (see Figure 10 on page 18).

2. Click Run Backup to back up all of your files.

3. During the backup:

• The Backup screen displays a progress bar and a message indicating the amount

of data that has been backed up.

• The blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer’s hard drive

changes to yellow/amber for all of the files that have not yet been backed up.

• The gray background in the Content Gauge for your My Book drive changes to

blue for each category as the backup completes.

• You can continue to set up your drive or perform any other functions since the

WD SmartWare software will back up all of your files in the background.

•A Pause Backup button is available for you to pause the backup.

4. Appearance of a backup successfully finished message means that the backup

completed normally.

If any files could not be backed up, their represenation remains yellow/amber in the

Content Gauge for your computer’s hard drive and the WD SmartWare software

displays a:

• Caution message indicating the number of files involved

• View link that you can click to see a list of the files and the reasons they were not

backed up

Some applications and running processes can keep files from being backed up. If

you cannot determine why some of your files were not backed up, try:

a. Saving and closing all of your open files.

b. Closing all running applications—including your e-mail program and web

browser.

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