MY BOOK ELITE
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED
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WD SmartWare Overview
WD SmartWare software is an easy-to-use tool that gives you the power to:
• Secure your drive—In drive settings, create a password to protect your encrypted
drive from unauthorized access or data theft.
• Protect your data automatically—Automatic, continuous backup instantly makes
a copy whenever you add or change a file.
Note:
Automatic backup protection is continuous for as long as your My Book
drive is connected to your computer. Then, whenever you disconnect and
reconnect the drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare software
rescans your computer for new or changed files and resumes automatic,
continuous backup as before.
• See your backup as it happens—Seeing is believing. Visual backup organizes and
displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your backup.
• Retrieve lost files effortlessly—Bring back your valuable data to its original
location whether you’ve lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.
WD SmartWare Home Screen
The WD SmartWare Home screen provides four tab-selected options:
• Home—Provides a Content Gauge that shows the capacity and content of each
hard drive in or connected to your computer (see Figure 8 on page 13)
• Backup—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and pictures (see Figure 10 on
page 21)
• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see Figure
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
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
tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Book drive
•
Retrieve
tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Book drive to any location
on your computer
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 six categories where:
This file category
Includes files with these extensions
Documents
.doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document
extensions
.mail, .msg, .pst., and other mail extensions
Music
.mp3, .wav, .wma, and other music extensions
Movies
.avi, .mov, .mp4, and other movie extensions
Pictures
.gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture extensions
Other
Others that do not belong in the five main categories
