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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL 

USER MANUAL

BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES – 14

This chapter includes the following topics: 

About Backing Up Your Computer Files
Backing It All Up
Advanced Backup Capabilities

The WD SmartWare software automatically and continuously backs up all of the content 
(music, movies, photos, documents, e-mail, and other files) on your computer to your My 
Passport drive. After the WD SmartWare software categorizes the different types of 
content you own, simply clicking the Run Backup button will back all of them up. 
Advanced users can select specific types of content to back up.

After performing a backup, the WD SmartWare software protects your files by backing 
up any:

•   New file that is created on your computer or copied to your hard drive

•   Existing file that is changed in any way

This protection is automatic—the WD SmartWare software does it for you without any 
action on your part—just make sure to leave your My Passport drive connected to your 
computer.

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.

Additionally, the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on page 15) provides:

•   Content Gauges for your computer’s disk drives, so you can see the number of 

files and the storage size for each content category

•   A Refresh View button for refreshing the Content Gauges

•   A Detailed View content box that you can use to select specific categories of files 

or folders to back up, with an Apply Changes button for implementing your 
selections

•   Run Backup and Pause Backup buttons for starting and stopping backups