Clickfree C2N 3.5 - Manual (Page 6)

Clickfree C2N Home Backup (Mac) Introducing the Clickfree C2N
The only exception to this is if you previously used your C2N with a non-Mac
computer and saved files on it outside of Clickfree backups. Because you will need to
reformat the external hard disk for use with the Mac, all data on the disk will be lost.
Be sure to copy valuable content before reformatting.
Similarly, when you restore content, it only copies it from your C2N to your computer, and
does not delete it from the C2N.
A backup is meant to be a second copy of your computer data,
not the only copy of your data.
Content
Normally you don’t use Clickfree to back up your applications or operating system, only the
data that you have created, such as music, photos, letters, emails, tax information etc. In this
guide we refer to this data as content.
W HAT GETS BACKED UP ?
When it runs automatically, Clickfree backs up everything in your Home folder – this is
where you normally put all of the content that you create or place in your computer.
If you choose to back up by content category (rather than backing up your entire Home
folder),
Clickfree backs up content in these categories:
• Office Documents – usually from word-processing programs such as AbiWord,
Microsoft Word, NeoOffice, iWork, Adobe files
• Music – including CAF, CD audio, MP3, MIDI
• Videos – for example, AVI, MPEG, Shockwave Flash
• Photos – including common graphic formats such as JPEG, TIFF, and RAW
• Emails and Messages – including Apple Mail, Entourage, Thunderbird
• Favorite Websites – internet shortcuts and address books
• Other – including Stuffit and hqx files, XML, and comma-separated values files
The first time you back up your computer, usually when you physically connect the C2N to
the computer via the USB cable, C2N backs up all of the content it finds, which might take
several hours, depending on how much content you need to back up. Each time you use
Clickfree after that, it only backs up the new or changed content, so it will be much quicker.
Any files that were deleted from your computer since the last backup are not deleted from
the C2N.
Clickfree does not back up programs or the operating system unless you explicitly set it up
to do so.
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