Western Digital My Book for Mac User Manual User Manual

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MY BOOK FOR MAC

USER MANUAL

BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES

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In the Content Gauges for your computer’s disk drives, the categories of files that would
be included in the backup if you click Run Backup are shown where a:

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

represents the original files that are available for backup.

• Gray background in the Content Gauge for your My Book drive represents the

potential backup copies of the original files.

• Dark blue background identifies categories of files that have been backed up

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.

In the Content Gauges and the Detailed View content box, the file categories are based
on the following folders on your computer:

• Music

• Movies

• Pictures

• Mail

• Documents

• Other

Each category includes all of the files in the represented folder except the Other
category, which includes all of the files in all other folders on your computer.

Figure 6. Backup Screen

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