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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL 

USER MANUAL

CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED – 13

•   Retrieve screen—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see 

•   Settings screen—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup 

On the Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the drop-
down selection box under the name of your computer. By selecting a different drive, the 
system will identify the categories of files on that drive. Then click the Backup or 
Retrieve tab to either back up from or retrieve files to a location other than your 
computer’s main hard drive.

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 six categories where:

For a complete list of all included file extensions, search for Answer ID 3644 in the WD 
Knowledge Base at 

.

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, and working files like .tmp and 
.log files.

•   The Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray background, shows the 

files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. They, too, are not available for 
backup.

•   Hovering the cursor over a category displays the number of files in the category.

In the Content Gauge for your My Passport 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.

Each WD SmartWare screen provides easy access to online help information to quickly 
guide you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. Whenever you are uncertain 
about what to do, just click the info/online help icon in the upper-right corner of any 
screen:

To close the info/help screen after reading the online help, click the X icon in the upper-
right corner of the screen.

.doc, .txt, .htm, .html, .ppt, .xls, .xml, and other document 
extensions

.mail, .msg, .pst., and other mail extensions

.mp3, .wav, .wma, and other music extensions

.avi, .mov, .mp4, and other movie extensions

.gif, .jpg, .png, and other picture extensions

Others that do not belong in the five main categories