Contents
1. Introducing Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Seagate Dashboard Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Protecting Your Data (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sharing Your Pictures and Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Downloading and Saving Your Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Controlling Settings for Your Seagate Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Getting Started With Seagate Dashboard | 6 |
About the Seagate Dashboard Icon | 7 |
System Requirements for Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Windows Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Mac Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Cloud Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2. Protecting Your Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Activating the Default Backup Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Creating a Customized Backup Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Restoring Files from Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3. Sharing Your Pictures and Videos | 17 |
How Picture and Video Sharing Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Example: Uploading Pictures to Facebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4. Saving Your Online Pictures with Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . . . 21
How Picture Saving Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Example: Downloading Pictures from Facebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5. Using Cloud Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
About Cloud Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Setting up a Cloud Storage Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Signing Into Your Cloud Storage Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Managing Your Cloud Storage Account from Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . 25 Using the Cloud Storage Web Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6. Managing Your Seagate Drives with Seagate Dashboard . . . . . . . 29
Seagate Dashboard User Guide | 3 |