Step 6 – Western Digital My Passport Edge User Manual User Manual
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MY PASSPORT EDGE
USER MANUAL
BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES
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b. Click Advanced View to open the backup by categories selection box:
c. In the backup by categories selection box:
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Clear the check boxes for the categories of files that you want to exclude
from the backup.
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As required, select the check boxes for the categories of files that you want to
include in the backup.
d. Click Apply Changes to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content
gauge for your My Passport drive.
e. Click Start Backup to begin backing up the selected categories of files
and skip
to
step 8 on page 29.
6.
To back up all of the files and folders on the internal hard drive:
a. Verify that the backup mode is file and that Ready to perform file backup
appears at the upper-left corner of the Backup screen.
If the backup mode is category and Ready to perform category backup
appears there, then click the Switch to File Backup button and OK on the
Switching Backup Plan dialog.
b. In the backup by files selection box, select the check box for your computer’s
internal hard drive:
If your computer has more than one internal hard drive, select the check box for
each one.
c. Click Apply Changes to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content
gauge for your My Passport drive.
d. Click Start Backup to begin backing up all of files and folders on the internal
hard drive
and skip to
step 8 on page 29.