About the WD SmartWare software

The WD SmartWare™ software is an easy-to-use backup application that gives you the power to:

• Protect your data automatically—Relax! Your data is safe. Automatic, continuous backup instantly makes a second copy whenever you add or change a file.
• See your backup as it happens—Visual backup organizes and displays your files into categories and shows the progress of your backup.
• Bring back lost files effortlessly—Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you have lost everything, deleted a file, or just overwritten an important file.
• Take control—Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center.
• Secure your drive—Gain peace of mind with encrypted drives knowing that your data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.

About the WD SmartWare Home tab display

The Home tab display provides an icon showing the name and a content gauge for:

• Your computer's internal hard drive or drive partition
• Each My Book or My Passport drive connected to your computer

Using the Home tab display

Use the Home tab display to:

• Select the internal hard drive or drive partition that you want to use for backup and retrieve functions if your computer has more than one
• Open the Windows System Properties dialog for your computer's internal hard drive or drive partition
• Select the My Book or My Passport drive that you want to use for backup and retrieve functions if you have more than one connected to your computer
• Open the Windows Drive Properties dialog for each My Book or My Passport drive connected to your computer
• Open the Windows Explorer dialog for each My Book or My Passport drive connected to your computer
• Select configuration and control options for My Book Live drives
• Safely remove each My Book or My Passport drive connected to your computer

Selecting the internal hard drive

If your computer has more than one internal hard drive, or multiple drive partitions, use the selection box below your computer icon to select the one you want to use for backup and retrieve functions.

Opening the System Properties dialog

Right-click your computer icon and select Properties to display the Windows System Properties dialog for the selected internal hard drive or drive partition.

Selecting the external hard drive

If you have more than one My Book or My Passport drive connected to your computer, left-click the icon of the one that you want to use for backup and retrieve functions. The WD SmartWare software highlights the selected drive with a light-blue shadow background.

Opening the Windows Drive Properties dialog

Right-click the My Book or My Passport drive icon and select Properties to display the Drive Properties dialog for the drive.

Selecting the My Book Live menu options

For a network-attached My Book Live drive, right-click the My Book Live icon and select:

• Open—To display the drive listing in Windows Explorer
• Dashboard—To display the Web interface for configuring the drive
• Learning Center—To display the My Book Live Learning Center help
• Map—To display the Windows Map Network Drive dialog
• Create Shortcut—To add a shortcut to the drive to your desktop display
• Alerts—To display the WD SmartWare WD Alerts reports
• Properties—To display the Device Details and Troubleshooting information for the drive
• Shut Down—To ready and shut down the drive

Opening the Windows Explorer dialog

Right-click the My Book or My Passport drive icon and select Open to see the drive listing in Windows Explorer.

Safely removing a drive

Right-click the My Book or My Passport drive icon and select Safely remove to prepare your system for safely disconnecting the drive.

About the content gauges

The content gauges under the icon and name of your computer's internal hard drive and your My Book or My Passport drives show the total amount of data, in bytes, of files that are available for backup or that have been backed up in six categories based on their file name extensions:

• Pictures—Photo and image files. Extensions include .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .eps, .raw, .pict, .pxr, .psd, and other picture file extensions.
• Music—Music files plus music container files, music coded files, and music playlist files. Extensions include .mp3, .mp3, .mpg3, .mpeg3, .mp4, .mpg4, .mpeg4, .wma, .wav, wav (pcm, lpcm), and other music file extensions.
• Movies—Video files plus video container files, video coded files, and video playlist files. Extensions include .mp4, .m1v, .m21, .m1v, .m2v, .m4e, .m4u, .mjp, .mj2, .mp21, .mp4, .mpe, .mpg, .mpeg, .mpv2 (MPEG), .mov, .avi, .moov, .movie (QuickTime), .mtv, .xvid, and other movie file extensions.
• Mail—E-mail collection file types and individual e-mail file types. Extensions include .msg, .mail, .eml, .dbx, .fol, .ost, .pst, and other mail file extensions.
• Documents—Word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, scheduling, plain text files, and other file types used by document processing software. Extensions include .doc, .dot, .txt, .htm, .html, .xml, .docm, .php, .ppt, .xls, .xlt, and other document file extensions.
• Other—Miscellaneous file types that do not belong in any of the other categories.

Hovering the pointer over a category displays the total number of files in the category.

Note that:

• The System category includes your operating system files, programs, applications, working files like .tmp and .log giles, and any files that are stored in a Temp folder. These files are not available for a category-type backup.

When you select and run a file-type backup, the name of the System category changes to Excluded and it then includes all of the files that were not included in your file backup.

• The Retrieved category includes any files you have already retrieved from a prior backup. They too are not available for a category backup.
• The Additional Files category on the content gauge for your My Book or My Passport drive shows the system files and hidden files that your operating system put there when you installed the drive.
• Because they change so frequently, Outlook .pst files are only backed up once every 24 hours. This exclusion does not apply to other mail application files.

For a complete list of all included file extensions, search for answer ID 3644 in the WD Knowledge Base at http://support.wdc.com.

Content gauge colors

The content gauges use the following colors to represent the files on your computer and your My Book or My Passport drive: