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Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide

Advanced topics

U

PDATING

C

LICKFREE SOFTWARE

From time to time

Clickfree

software is upgraded to provide new or enhanced features.

You can:

• Have

Clickfree

check for updates each time you connect it to your computer –

this is the default action, you don’t need to do anything

• Manually check for updates

In both cases your computer needs to be connected to the internet for updated software
to be found and installed.

To check automatically for updates:

By default,

Clickfree

automatically looks for updates when it is connected to your

computer and you have a connection to the internet. To ensure this feature is on, make
sure that the checkbox

Automatically check for updates

is checked on the

Tools

window:

.

Every time that you connect

Clickfree

to your computer it automatically checks for

updated software and, if an update is available, prompts you to download and install it.

To stop checking automatically for updates:

Make sure that the checkbox

Automatically check for updates

is unchecked on the

Tools

window:

.

To check manually for updates:

1. On the

Tools

window click

Update

.

Clickfree

checks for available updates.

If the software in your

Clickfree

Backup Drive and your computer is up to date,

click

OK

on the dialog that pops up.

If an update is available,

Clickfree

shows you what progress is being made in

downloading the update and updating your software:

Warning: While a software update is taking place it is very important for you not to

remove the

Clickfree

Backup Drive from your computer and not to turn off or

restart the computer until the update is complete.

2. When the software update is complete, you need to unplug the

Clickfree

Backup

Drive and plug it in again for the update to take effect.

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