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USER MANUAL
USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC – 48
The WD SmartWare Home
screen displays.
On the Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the drop-
down selection box under the name of your computer. By selecting a different drive, the
system will identify 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
• 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.
Note that:
• The
System
category, shown against a dark gray background, includes all of your
operating system files that are not available for backup. Files that are not backed
up include system files, program files, applications, and working files.
• The
Retrieved
category, also shown against a dark gray background, shows the
files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. They, too, are not available for
backup.
• Hovering the cursor over a category displays the number of files in the category.
