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Clickfree Backup Drive User Guide for Apple Macintosh users ...
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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 HA T GETS BACKED UP ? 7 Clickfree backs up content 7 Does Clickfree back up all of my content every time? 8 What content categories does Clickfree ba ...
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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 content 21 Choosing categories of content to be restored 21 Choosing where to restore content to 22 B ROWSING & SEARCHING FOR MY FILES 25 S tarting ...
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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 is an easy-to-use computer backup system that automatically searches for and backs up content sto ...
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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 attach the Backup Drive to your computer • one quick start guide D EFINITIONS Just to make sure that the user guide is clear, we’re going to define ...
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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. On the other hand, a single email mes sage may be just a part of a large file that contains many messages, and related information such as email addresse s, c ...
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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. Your computer knows when Clickfree has been plugged in, and it runs the ...
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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. Each time you use Clickfree after that, it only backs up the new or change ...
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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. 2. Log in, if that is what you normally do. 3. Attach the Clickfree Backup D ...
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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. Click . Clickfree then reformats the Backup Drive. When the Clickfree backup starts to run, a Welcome window appears and shows th e number of seconds left before ...
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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 ” on page 12 Clickfree displays some windows to show progress: The Backup Summary window shows you how many files i n each category were backed up this ...
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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. If you choose to back up content by category, you can ...
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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. Click the Advanced button near the top right of the Clickfree window, then • To add a f ...
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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. 7. Choose where you want Clickfree to search for the categories you chose earlier. You can add and remove folders Click the Advanced button near the bottom right of the Clickfree window, then • To ...
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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 your Backup Drive: At the end of the backup, a Backup Summary window is displayed: The Backup Summary window shows you how many files i n each category ...
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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. If there is not enough free space for your content, ...
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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. Occasionally, computers suffer damage that affects the hard disk. ...
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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. If you prefer, you can easily tell Clickfree to restore your fi ...
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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. 6. Before you click Continue to restore all of your content, or select categories to be ...
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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. 11. Before it overwrites an existing file on yo ur computer with one of th ...
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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 . 15. To finish, simply unplug the Clickfree Backup Drive and store it in a safe place, ...
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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 . • If you want to restore ...
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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. You can choose to: • Keep both copies of this one file – click Keep ...
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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. Note : Your content has not been deleted from your Clickfree backup: it is still safe on ...
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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 • Search your backup(s) for files S T ARTING FROM THE W ELCOME WINDOW ♦ To browse and search for files: Before the countdown gets to zero, click ...
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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 lists, on the left, all of t he folders that contain files from the category that corresponds to the number you clicked: Select a folder to view the fil ...
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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 creates a unique identifier for each co mputer and user that it is used with, regardle ...
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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. Click Tools to show the available tools. M AN AG ...
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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 may take several minutes to erase the data , dep ...
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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. You can: • Have Clickfree check for updates each time you connect it to your computer – this is the default action, you don’t need to do anything • Manually c ...
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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. ♦ To select/deselect files wit hin a catego ...
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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 10.5 or higher, Intel based. • Ensure that you have administra tive rights to the ...
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Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Legal stuff Legal stuff and the Clickfree Clickfree logo are trademarks or regi stered trademarks of Storage Appliance Corporation. Other product names used in this guide are recognized as trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners. The information contain ed in this guide is provi ded by St ...
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