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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

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About the Seagate Dashboard Icon

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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

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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

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