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WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW – 16
Note: In addition to the detailed Help tab information, each WD SmartWare
display provides easy access to abbreviated online help to quickly guide
you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. Whenever y ou are
uncertain about what to do, just click the info/online help icon in the
upper-right corner of the display:
To close the info/online help screen after reading the online help, click the X icon
in the upper-right corner of the help screen.
Home Tab Display
Use the Home tab display to view device content gauges and select:
• The source device or drive partition that has the files you want to back up
• The target device or device partition/network share that you want to back up files
to or retrieve files from
See Figure 8 on page 17 and Table 1 on page 18 for a brief functional description of the
Home tab display.
Settings Buttons for opening dialogs to:
• Specify the number of backup versions that you want to keep
for each file
• Specify a different destination folder for retrieved files
• Automatically check for WD SmartWare software updates
• Configure a remote Dropbox folder for access by the
WD SmartWare Pro software
See “Settings Tab Display” on page 28.
Help Instant access to:
• Detailed information about backing up and retrieving files and
making your software setup selections
• WD Customer Support and software update services
See “Help Tab Display” on page 29.
In each display, the WD SmartWare software changes the names and graphic images to match
the hardware configuration of the connected devices.
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