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Western Digital My Book/My Book Essential (USB 3.0) User Manual User Manual

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MY BOOK

USER MANUAL

WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW

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Drive display scroll
pointers

(Not shown in Figure 8 on page 15.)

One installation of the WD SmartWare software supports as many
drives as you system can handle. When the number of connected
drives exceeds the display capacity, the WD SmartWare software
displays left/right drive display scroll pointers for viewing all of
them:

Your computer’s content
gauge

The content gauge for your computer’s internal hard drive shows
all of your files that are available for a category-type backup
against a blue background in six categories where:

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

Pictures

.gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture
extensions

Other

Others that do not belong in the five main
categories

For a complete list of all included file extensions, search for answer
ID 3644 in the WD Knowledge Base at

http://support.wdc.com

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Table 1. Home Tab Functional Description (Continued)

Display Component

Description

Scroll Pointers