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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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Retrieve destination
option buttons

Specify the location on your computer’s internal hard drive where
you want to copy the files retrieved from the selected My Book
drive:

To the Original Places copies the retrieved files to the same

location that they were backed up from

To a Retrieved Content Folder copies all of the retrieved files

to a single folder

Retrieve files option
buttons

By default, the Retrieve Some Files option is selected and the
WD SmartWare software displays the Retrieve Some Files
selection box that you can use to find and retrieve only selected
files or folders.

Selecting the Retrieve All Files option closes the Retrieve Some
Files selection box and the WD SmartWare software retrieves all of
the files from the selected backup volume on the selected drive.

Retrieve some files
selection box

Displays all of the files from the selected backup volume on the
selected drive in a folder structure with check boxes for selecting
individual files or folders:

Start/Cancel Retrieving
toggle button

Controls retrieve operations by starting and canceling the retrieve.

Table 3. Retrieve Tab Functional Description (Continued)

Display Component

Description