Western Digital My Passport Elite User Manual - Manual (Page 18)

MY PASSPORT ELITE
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED – 13
WD SmartWare Overview
WD SmartWare software is an easy-to-use tool that gives you the power to:
• Secure your drive—In drive settings, create a password to protect your encrypted
drive from unauthorized access or data theft.
• Protect your data automatically—Automatic, continuous backup instantly makes
a copy whenever you add or change a file.
Note: Automatic backup protection is continuous for as long as your My
Passport drive is connected to your computer. Then, whenever you
disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare
software rescans your computer for new or changed files and resumes
automatic, continuous backup as before.
• See your backup as it happens—Seeing is believing. Visual backup organizes and
displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your backup.
• Retrieve lost files effortlessly—Bring back your valuable data to its original
location whether you’ve lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.
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 8)
• Backup—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and pictures (see Figure 9 on
page 17)
Figure 8. Home Screen