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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL 

USER MANUAL

CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED – 12

 Figure 8.  Home Screen

WD SmartWare software is an easy-to-use tool that gives you the power to:

•   Secure your drive—In drive settings, create a password to protect your encrypted 

drive from unauthorized access or data theft.

•   Protect your data automatically—Automatic, continuous backup instantly makes 

a copy whenever you add or change a file.

Note:  Automatic backup protection is continuous for as long as your My 

Passport drive is connected to your computer. Then, whenever you 
disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare 
software rescans your computer for new or changed files and resumes 
automatic, continuous backup as before.

•   See your backup as it happens—Seeing is believing. Visual backup organizes and 

displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your backup.

•   Retrieve lost files effortlessly—Bring back your valuable data to its original 

location whether you’ve lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.

The WD SmartWare Home screen (available after installation and the initial backup and 
security setup) provides four tab-selected options:

•   Home screen—Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in 

or connected to your computer (see Figure 8)

•   Backup screen—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your 

important data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos (see 
Figure 9 on page 15)