Clickfree DVD Transformer User Manual

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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide

Introducing Clickfree DVD Transformer

Content

Normally you don’t use

Clickfree

to back up your applications or operating system, only

the data that you have created or copied to your computer – music, photos, letters, emails
etc. In this guide we refer to this data as content.

File

Information used by your computer and stored in a specific place on your hard disk. A file
may be content, an application or part of an application, or information a program uses in
some way.

Sometimes the relationship between content and file is clear: a photo or a letter is usually a
single file. On the other hand, a single email message may be just a part of a large file that
contains many messages, and related information such as email addresses, calendar events
etc. However, you don’t need to be concerned about this because

Clickfree

takes care of all

the details for you.

History

Important:

Although the DVD Transformer backs up all of your content to backup disks,

and all of your content can be restored using the backup disks alone (that is, without using
the DVD Transformer), if possible you should always perform restores and transfers with
the DVD Transformer plugged in. This is because backup history is stored on the DVD
Transformer.

This includes information about which disk holds which files, and, in particular, which
disk has the most up-to-date version of a file that has been backed up more than once.

Without the DVD Transformer, to restore your files you will likely need to run restore from
multiple backups to be sure that you can restore all of your files in their most current
versions.