MY BOOK STUDIO
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED – 12
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 on page 11)
• 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 15)
• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see
Figure 9 on page 22)
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
(see Figure 7 on page 18)
On the WD SmartWare Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being
categorized with the drop-down selection box under the name of your computer. After
you select a different drive, the WD SmartWare software identifies the categories of files
on that drive. Then click the:
• Backup tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Book drive
• Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Book drive to any location
on your computer
In the Content Gauge for your computer’s hard drive, all of your files that are available for
backup are shown against a blue background in categories that are based on the
following folders on your computer:
• Music
• Movies
• Pictures
• Mail
• Documents
• Other
Each category includes all of the files in the represented folder except the Other
category, which includes all of the files in all other folders on your computer.
Note that:
• The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes all of your
operating system files that are not available for backup. Files that are not backed
up include system files, program files, applications, working fi les, and any files
that are stored in a Temp folder.
• The Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray background, includes the
files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. They, too, are not available for
backup.
• Hovering the pointer over a category shows the number of files in the category.
In the Content Gauge for your My Book drive, the Additional Files category includes all
of the files shown in the used space portion of your drive properties. This space is not
available for backups.