Western Digital My Book Studio/Studio LX User Manual - Manual (Page 18)

MY BOOK STUDIO AND STUDIO LX
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED – 13
WD SmartWare Home Screen
The WD SmartWare Home screen (available after installation and the initial backup and
security setup) provides four tab-selected options:
• Home—Provides a Content Gauge that shows the capacity and content of each
hard drive in or connected to your computer (see Figure 7 on page 12)
• Backup—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and pictures (see Figure 8 on
page 19)
• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see
Figure 11 on page 27)
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
(see Figure 9 on page 23)
On the Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the drop-
down selection box under the name of your computer. By selecting a different drive, the
system will identify the categories of files on that drive. Then click the:
• Backup tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Book drive
• Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Book drive to any location
on your computer
In the Content Gauge for your computer’s hard drive, all of your files that are available for
backup are shown against a blue background in categories that are based on the
following folders on your computer:
• Music
• Movies
• Pictures
• Mail
• Documents
• Other
Each category includes all of the files in the represented folder except the Other
category, which includes all of the files in all other folders on your computer.
Note that:
• The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes all of your
operating system files that are not available for backup. Files that are not backed
up include system files, program files, applications, and working files.
• The Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray background, shows the
files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. They, too, are not available for
backup.
• Hovering the cursor over a category displays the number of files in the category.
In the Content Gauge for your My Book drive, the Additional Files category includes all
of the files shown in the used space portion of your drive properties. This space is not
available for backups.
Note: The small number of files that are shown in the Additional Files category
when you first install the WD SmartWare software—before performing
your first backup—represents the system and hidden files that your
computer’s operating system put there when you installed the drive.