MY BOOK ELITE
USER MANUAL
RETRIEVING BACKED UP FILES
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Retrieving Backed Up Files
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Retrieving Files
Retrieving a File
Retrieving a Folder
Retrieving an Earlier Version of a File or Deleted Files
Retrieving All of Your Content
About Retrieving Files
The WD SmartWare software makes it easy for you to retrieve files that have been
backed up on your My Book drive and either:
• Restore them to their original locations on your computer
• Copy them to a special retrieve folder
Retrieve is generally a five-step process:
1.
Choose the drive to retrieve content from on the Home screen.
2.
Choose the backup you want to retrieve content from. (This is only required if you
have created several different backups on your My Book drive.)
3.
Choose whether content will be retrieved to a special retrieval folder or to the original
location.
4.
Choose what content to retrieve, either files, folders, or everything.
5.
Retrieve the content.
Retrieving a File
After selecting the drive on the Home screen, you can retrieve files from your My Book
drive. To retrieve a file or folder from your drive:
1.
Click the
Retrieve
tab to display the Retrieve screen (see Figure 13 on page 28).
2.
In the
Backed Up Volumes
box, select the WD SmartWare volume that you want to
retrieve a file or folder from and click
Select Destination
to display the Select a
destination for retrieved files screen (see Figure 14 on page 28).
3.
On the Select a destination for retrieved files screen:
IF you want to copy your
retrieved content to . . .
THEN . . .
Its original location,
a.
Select the
To the Original Places
option.
b.
Click
Select Files
to display the Select content to
retrieve... screen and proceed to step 4 on page 29.
A retrieved content folder,
a.
Select the
In a Retrieved Content Folder
option.
b.
If you want to specify a different retrieve folder, click
Browse
and use the browse function to identify the
new retrieve folder.
c.
Click
Apply
to save and implement the new retrieve
folder.
d.
Click
Select Files
to display the Select content to
retrieve... screen (see Figure 15) and proceed to step
4 on page 29.
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