Western Digital WDBCGL0020BSL WD SmartWare User Manual - Page 12

WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL Table 1. Home Tab Functional Description (Continued) Display Component Description External device content gauge After installing the WD SmartWare software-before running your first backup or copying any files to the device-the external device content gauge shows only a small number of files in the Additional Files category. These are the system files and hidden files that your computer's operating system put there when you installed the device. After running a backup or copying files to the external device, the external device content gauge shows: • All of the files that have been backed up in the same categories as the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive (see "Your computer's content gauge" on page 7) • Any other files that you have copied or saved to the external device in the Additional Files category Backup Tab Displays The WD SmartWare software provides two different Backup tab displays, depending on how you want to select files to back up: • By category-As shown in the content gauges • By file-As shown in the folder structure of your computer's internal hard drive See "How the Backup Function Works" on page 28 for a description of category- and file-type backups. Use the Backup tab displays to select the files or categories of files that you want to back up and control the backup operation. See Figure 2 and Table 2 on page 9 for a brief functional description of the Backup tab displays. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 8