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Clickfree Backup Drive User Guide for Apple Macintosh users.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Contents Content s I NTRODUCING C LICKFREE B ACKUP D RIVE 4 Main Features 4 Package content s 5 Definitions 5 B ASICS 7 H OW DOES C LICKFREE WORK ? 7 W.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Contents H OW DO I LET C LICKFREE RESTORE DECIDE WHA T T O REST ORE A ND WHERE ? 18 H OW DO I CHA NGE HOW C LICKFREE RESTORES CONTENT ? 21 Restoring co.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree Backup Drive Introducing Clickfree Backup Drive Thank you for buying the Clickfree Backup Drive – the easiest way to keep the valuable information on your computer safe.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree Backup Drive P AC K AGE CO NT EN TS Your Clickfree backup package contains: • one Clickfree Backup Drive • one USB cable to a.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree Backup Drive Sometimes the relationship between content and file is clear: a photo or a letter is usually a single file.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Basics Basics H OW DOES C LICKFREE WORK ? All you need to do to keep your projects, photos, videos, music etc. safe is to plug Clickfree in to your computer and let it work! No need to install software or to conf igure anything.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Basics D OES C LICKFREE BACK UP ALL OF M Y CONTENT EVER Y TIME ? The first time you back up your computer Clickfree backs up the entire Home folder, which might take some time – it just depend s on how much content you have.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content Backing up my content H OW DO I ST ART USING MY C LICKFREE B ACKUP D RIVE ? ♦ To start using your Clickfree B ackup Drive: 1. Make sure that your computer is swit ched on and has finished starting up.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content You then see a dialog that allows you to ch oose to make the Backup Drive work with the Mac by formatting it as HFS.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content • If you want to make changes to how backup is done, click Options and s ee “ How do I change how Clickfree does backups ” .
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content H OW DO I CHANGE HOW C LICKFREE DOES BAC KUPS ? You can decide whether Clickfree backs up complete folders, or backs up content by category (for example, Office Documents). The default is to back up your complete Home folder.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content B ACKING UP A LL OF THE FILES IN SELECTED FOLDE RS Your home folder is selected by default. 4. Choose which folders you want Clickfree to back up completely. You can add and remove folders.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content C HOOSING FOLDERS TO SEARCH FOR CONTENT Your home folder is selected by default.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content Clickfree backs up your content If there is enough space on your Backup Drive, Clickfree then backs up the content you chose to y.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content W HA T IF T HERE IS NOT ENOUGH SP ACE ON MY C LICKFREE B ACKUP D RIVE ? While Clickfree is searching for content to back up, it adds up the amount of disk space needed and compares that with the free space on the Backup Drive.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content Restoring my content W HA T IF MY COMPUT ER ’ S INTERNAL HARD DISK STOPS WORKING , OR I WOULD LIKE TO TRANSFER MY CONTENT TO A NEW COMPUT ER ? All computer hard disks fail eventually, so metimes without warning.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content W HA T GETS RESTORED , AND TO WH ERE ? When Clickfree restore runs without you changing any options, it restores all of the content that was backed up, and puts it in the Restored Files folder under your Home folder.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content 5. Before the countdown gets to zero, click Restore . Th e What to restore window appears. Note that all of the categories that have backed-up content are checked off in the Categories column.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content 10. Since you are letting Clickfree restore files to the default folder, simply click Continue . As Clickfree restores your content, it shows you what is happening and how far it has gotten in the process.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content 13. When all of your content has been restored, Clickfree tells you that it is done. 14. To open a Finder window at the re store folder, click the button below Your files have been restored to .
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content C HOOSING WHERE TO REST ORE CONTENT TO 5. What you do next depends on whether you want to restore y our content to the default folder or to somewhere else. • If you want to restore your content to the default folder, click Contin ue and go to step 8 .
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content Before it overwrites an existing file on yo ur computer with one of the same name from the backed-up files, Clickfree asks if you want to replace the existing file with the same- name file from the backup: 9.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content 11. To finish, simply unplug the Clickfree Backup Drive and store it in a safe place, or leave it plugged in and just push the Back up button at any time to perform another backup or restore.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Browsing & searching for my files Browsing & searching for my files From the Backup Summary window you can: • Browse your backup(s) for files.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Browsing & searching for my files H OW DO I BROWSE MY BACKED - UP FILES ? ♦ To browse for files that you have backed up: The window that opens li.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics Advanced topics W HA T IF I HA VE MOR E THAN ONE COMPUTER ? Clickfree Backup Drive can back as many computers as you like: you are limited only by the amount of space on your Backup Drive.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics ♦ To use these tools: 1. Connect Clickfree to your computer as described in “ How do I start using my Clickfree Backup Drive ? ” on page 9 . 2. When you see the countdown window, click Options before the countdown reaches zero: 3.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics 3. If you really want to remo ve the user’s backups from Clickfree , click Yes . Warning : Once you hav e removed a u ser’s backup s from Clickfr ee there i s no way to recover tha t user’s content from the Backup Drive.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics U PDA TING C LICKFREE SOFTW AR E From time to time Clickfree software is upgraded to provide new or enhanced features.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics H OW DO I CHOOSE INDIVIDUAL FILES FOR RESTORE ? On the What to restore window you can click checkboxes to select the c ategory whose files you want to restore. You can also select and deselect indivi dual backed-up files within a category.
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics W HA T DO I DO IF C LICKFREE DOESN ’ T ST ART AUT O MA TICALL Y ? If Clickfree does not run when you plug in the Clickfree Backup Drive: • Ensure you are using a supported Mac computer: OSX Leopard 10.
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An important point after buying a device Clickfree Backup Drive (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought Clickfree Backup Drive yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data Clickfree Backup Drive - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, Clickfree Backup Drive you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get Clickfree Backup Drive will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of Clickfree Backup Drive, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime Clickfree Backup Drive.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with Clickfree Backup Drive. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device Clickfree Backup Drive along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
