Western Digital My Book for Mac User Manual - Manual (Page 26)

MY BOOK FOR MAC
USER MANUAL
RETRIEVING BACKED UP FILES – 21
Retrieving Backed Up Files
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Retrieving Files
Retrieving Files or Folders
About Retrieving Files
The WD SmartWare software makes it easy for you to retrieve files that have been
backed up on your My Book drive and copy them to either:
• Their original locations on your computer
• A special retrieve folder
Retrieve is generally a five-step process:
1. Choose the drive to retrieve files from on the Home screen.
2. Choose the backup you want to retrieve files from.
3. Choose whether the retrieved files will be copied to a special retrieval folder or to
their original locations.
4. Specify what to retrieve, either files, folders, or everything.
5. Retrieve the files.
Retrieving Files or Folders
After selecting the drive on the Home screen, you can retrieve individual files or
complete folders from your My Book drive:
1. Click the Retrieve tab to display the Retrieve screen (see Figure 9 on page 22).
2. In the Backed Up Volumes box, select the WD SmartWare volume that you want to
retrieve files from and click Select Destination to display the Select a destination for
retrieved files screen (see Figure 10 on page 22).
3. On the Select a destination for retrieved files screen:
IF you want to copy your
retrieved files to . . .
THEN . . .
Their original locations, a. Select the To the Original Places option.
b. Click Select Files to display the Select content to
retrieve... screen (Figure 11 on page 23) and proceed
to step 4 on page 23.
A retrieved content folder, a. Select the In a 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 23.
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