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Loading Content on Your Drive, Loading Content, Using a USB Connection to Load Content

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LOADING CONTENT ON YOUR DRIVE 16 Loading Content on Your Drive This chapter includes the following topics: Loading Content Using a Compatible Wireless Camera Backing up a Computer to the Drive One of the first things to do with your drive is to load content to it using a USB connection, a wireless connection, an Android/iOS mobile device with WD My Cloud, or a compatible wireless camera. Another way to load content is to back up a computer to the drive. Note: To load content from an SD card, see "Moving or Copying Content from an SD Card" on page 36. Loading Content Using a USB Connection to Load Content If you want to copy over a lot of files, use the USB port on your computer, which is faster than using the My Passport Wireless Wi-Fi network. 1. Plug one end of the USB cable into the drive and the other end into your computer's USB port. Note: When you connect your computer and drive this way, the drive's wireless network is disabled. 2. On your computer, open the File Explorer (Windows PC) or Finder (Mac) window. 3. Do one of the following:  For a Windows PC: In the left pane of the File Explorer window, click Computer and double-click the My Passport Wireless drive.  For a Mac computer: In the left pane of the Finder window in the DEVICES section, double-click the My Passport Wireless drive. 4. Drag and drop files from your computer to the drive and a copy of the files is saved on the drive. 30 MY PASSPORT WIRELESS USER MANUAL

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LOADING CONTENT ON YOUR DRIVE
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MY PASSPORT WIRELESS
USER MANUAL
Loading Content on Your Drive
This chapter includes the following topics:
Loading Content
Using a Compatible Wireless Camera
Backing up a Computer to the Drive
One of the first things to do with your drive is to load content to it using a USB connection, a
wireless connection, an Android/iOS mobile device with WD My Cloud, or a compatible
wireless camera. Another way to load content is to back up a computer to the drive.
Note:
To load content from an SD card, see “Moving or Copying Content from an
SD Card” on page 36.
Loading Content
Using a USB Connection to Load Content
If you want to copy over a lot of files, use the USB port on your computer, which is faster
than using the My Passport Wireless Wi-Fi network.
1. Plug one end of the USB cable into the drive and the other end into your computer's
USB port.
Note:
When you connect your computer and drive this way, the drive’s wireless
network is disabled.
2.
On your computer, open the File Explorer (Windows PC) or Finder (Mac) window.
3.
Do one of the following:
For a Windows PC: In the left pane of the File Explorer window, click
Computer
and
double-click the My Passport Wireless drive.
For a Mac computer: In the left pane of the Finder window in the DEVICES section,
double-click the My Passport Wireless drive.
4.
Drag and drop files from your computer to the drive and a copy of the files is saved on
the drive.
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