The wd smartware home screen – Western Digital My Passport Essential SE User Manual User Manual

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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE

USER MANUAL

USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC

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The WD SmartWare Home Screen

On the Home screen, you can change the drive being categorized by using the drop-
down selection box under the name of your computer. If you select a different drive, the
WD SmartWare software identifies the categories of files on that drive. Then click the
Backup or Retrieve tab to either back up from or retrieve files to a location other than
your computer’s main hard drive.

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 categories that 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 17. WD SmartWare Home Screen

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