Western Digital My Book/My Book Essential (USB 3.0) User Manual - Manual (Page 19)

MY BOOK
USER MANUAL
WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW – 14
Note: In addition to the detailed Help tab information, each WD SmartWare
display provides easy access to abbreviated online help to quickly guide
you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. Whenever you are
uncertain about what to do, just click the info/online help icon in the
upper-right corner of the display:
To close the info/online help screen after reading the online help, click the X icon
in the upper-right corner of the help screen.
Home Tab Displays
The WD SmartWare software provides two different Home tab displays, depending on
which version of the software you install:
• WD SmartWare Home tab display
Use the WD SmartWare Home tab display to view hard drive content gauges and
select:
- The internal hard drive or hard drive partition that you want to back up files
from or copy retrieved files to when your computer has more than one
- The My Book drive or other supported device that you want to back up files
to, retrieve files from, or customize when you have more than one connected
to your computer
Retrieve Three full-screen dialogs for selecting the:
• Backup volume that you want to retrieve files from
• Destination on your computer where you want to copy the
retrieved files
• Files that you want to retrieve
See “Retrieve Tab Displays” on page 21.
Settings One of two dialogs, depending on whether you install the full version
or the drive management version of the WD SmartWare software.
The full version dialog provides buttons for displaying Software
Settings and Drive Settings screens.
The drive management version dialog displays only the Drive
Settings screen.
See “Settings Tab Displays” on page 24.
Help Instant access to:
• Detailed information about backing up and retrieving files and
making your software setup selections
• WD Customer Support and software update services
See “Help Tab Display” on page 25.
In each display, the WD SmartWare software changes the names and graphic images to match
the hardware configuration of the connected devices.
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