Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide
Introducing Clickfree Backup Drive
P
ACKAGE CONTENTS
Your
Clickfree
backup package contains:
•
one
Clickfree
Backup Drive
•
one USB cable to attach the Backup Drive to your computer
•
one quick start guide
D
EFINITIONS
Just to make sure that the user guide is clear, we’re going to define a couple of terms that
are used throughout the guide.
Back up and Restore
Backing up is making copies of data so that a copy can be used to restore the original after
the data is lost or destroyed. Backups are used to restore data after loss of or damage to
your computer’s hard disk, and to restore files that have been accidentally deleted or
corrupted.
Making a backup of your content only copies it from your computer to your Backup Drive,
and does not delete it from the computer’s hard disk.
Restoring your content from a backup only copies it from your Backup Drive to your
computer, and does not delete it from the Backup Drive.
Important
:
Clickfree
never erases or replaces content on your computer’s hard disk, unless
you ask it to replace a file during restore.
Clickfree
never erases anything other than the backups it has performed. Any
other data stored on your Backup Drive is left untouched and is never erased
The only exception to this is if you previously used your Backup Drive with a non-Mac
computer and saved files on it outside of
Clickfree
backups. Because you will need to
reformat the Backup Drive for use with the Mac, all data on the disk will be lost. Be sure to
copy valuable content before reformatting.
And unless you ask it to remove backed-up content,
Clickfree
never erases or
replaces content on your Backup Drive.
Your
Clickfree
backups are also handy for moving or copying data from one computer to
another.
Content
Normally you don’t use
Clickfree
to back up your applications or operating system, only
the data that you have created or copied to your computer – music, photos, letters, emails
etc. In this guide we refer to this data as
content
.
File
Information used by your computer and stored in a specific place on your hard disk. A
file
may be
content
, an application or part of an application, or information a program uses in
some way.
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