Western Digital My Passport SE for Mac User Manual - Manual (Page 16)

MY PASSPORT FOR MAC AND MY PASSPORT SE FOR MAC
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED – 11
WD SmartWare Home Screen
The WD SmartWare Home screen has four tab-selected options:
• Home—Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in or
connected to your computer (see Figure 5)
• Backup—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos (see Figure 6 on
page 14)
• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see
Figure 9 on page 21)
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
(see Figure 7 on page 17)
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 Passport drive
• Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Passport drive to any
location on your computer
Figure 5. Home Screen