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Wd smartware home screen – Western Digital My Book Live Duo User Manual User Manual

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MY BOOK LIVE DUO

USER MANUAL

BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING FILES – 24

Launching the WD SmartWare Software After Installation

Use one of the following options for the WD SmartWare Software once you have installed it:

WD SmartWare icon

—In the Windows system tray, left- or right-click the WD

Quick View icon to display the main menu, and then select WD SmartWare.

Windows Explorer—Click Start or

, and then click Programs >

WD SmartWare > WD SmartWare.

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 the following tabs:

Home—Provides a Content Gauge showing the capacity of each 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 the following categories:

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