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Contents 1. Introducing Seagate Dashboard 5 Seagate Dashboard Features 5 Protecting Your Data (Windows Only 5 Sharing Your Pictures and Videos 6 Downloading and Saving Your Pictures 6 Controlling Settings for Your Seagate Drive 6 Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard 6 About the Seagate Dashboard Icon 7 System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard 8 Windows Requirements 8 Mac Requirements 8 Cloud Storage Requirements 8 2. Protecting Your Data 9 Activating the Default Backup Plan 9 Creating a Customized Backup Plan 10 Restoring Files from Backup 14 3. Sharing Your Pictures and Videos 17 How Picture and Video Sharing Works 17 Example: Uploading Pictures to Facebook 17 4. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard 21 How Picture Saving Works 21 Example: Downloading Pictures from Facebook 21 5. Using Cloud Storage 23 About Cloud Storage 23 Setting up a Cloud Storage Account 23 Signing Into Your Cloud Storage Account 25 Managing Your Cloud Storage Account from Seagate Dashboard 25 Using the Cloud Storage Web Portal 26 6. Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard 29 Seagate Dashboard User Guide 3

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Seagate Dashboard User Guide
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Contents
1. Introducing Seagate Dashboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Seagate Dashboard Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Protecting Your Data (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sharing Your Pictures and Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Downloading and Saving Your Pictures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Controlling Settings for Your Seagate Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
About the Seagate Dashboard Icon
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Windows Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Mac Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Cloud Storage Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2. Protecting Your Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Activating the Default Backup Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Creating a Customized Backup Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Restoring Files from Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3. Sharing Your Pictures and Videos
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
How Picture and Video Sharing Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Example: Uploading Pictures to Facebook
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . . . 21
How Picture Saving Works
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Example: Downloading Pictures from Facebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5. Using Cloud Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
About Cloud Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Setting up a Cloud Storage Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Signing Into Your Cloud Storage Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Managing Your Cloud Storage Account from Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . 25
Using the Cloud Storage Web Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6. Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . 29