Western Digital WDBVHT0080JCH User Manual - Page 33

WD SmartWare Home Screen, Backup, Retrieve, Settings

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MY BOOK LIVE DUO USER MANUAL WD SmartWare Home Screen The Home screen is the first screen you see after you launch the WD SmartWare software: The WD SmartWare Home screen provides five tabs:  Home-Provides a Content Gauge showing the capacity of each My Book Live Duo drive on your network.  Backup-Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important data, including movies, music, documents, email, and photos.  Retrieve-Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten.  Settings-Manages backup parameters, searches for updates, and provides a link to the My Book Live Duo dashboard, where you can configure the drive.  Help-Provides quick access to Learning Center topics and links to online support services. The Learning Center topics provide more detail than the info/online help for each screen, but not as much as the WD SmartWare Software User Manual. In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are available for backup display against a blue background in six categories where: This file category Documents Mail Music Movies Pictures Other Includes files with these extensions .doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document extensions .mail, .msg, .pst., and other mail extensions .mp3, .wav, .wma, and other music extensions .avi, .mov, .mp4, and other movie extensions .gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture extensions Others that do not belong in the five main categories For a complete list of all included file extensions, search for Answer ID 3644 in the WD Knowledge Base at http://support.wdc.com. BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING FILES - 27

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MY BOOK LIVE DUO
USER MANUAL
BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING FILES – 27
WD SmartWare Home Screen
The Home screen is the first screen you see after you launch the WD SmartWare software:
The WD SmartWare Home screen provides five tabs:
Home
—Provides a Content Gauge showing the capacity of each My Book Live Duo
drive on your network.
Backup
—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, email, and photos.
Retrieve
—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten.
Settings
—Manages backup parameters, searches for updates, and provides a link
to the My Book Live Duo dashboard, where you can configure the drive.
Help
—Provides quick access to Learning Center topics and links to online support
services. The Learning Center topics provide more detail than the info/online help for
each screen, but not as much as the WD SmartWare Software User Manual.
In the Content Gauge for your computer’s hard drive, all of your files that are available for
backup display against a blue background in six categories where:
For a complete list of all included file extensions, search for Answer ID 3644 in the
WD Knowledge Base at
.
This file category
Includes files with these extensions
Documents
.doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document
extensions
Mail
.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