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Clickfree Backup Drive User Manual

Clickfree Backup Drive User Guide
for Apple Macintosh users
Clickfree Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Contents
Contents
INTRODUCING CLICKFREE BACKUP DRIVE 4
Main Features 4
Package contents 5
Definitions 5
BASICS 7
Clickfree backs up content 7
Does Clickfree back up all of my content every time? 8
What content categories does Clickfree back up? 8
BACKING UP MY CONTENT 9
Choosing what to back up 12
Backing up all of the files in selected folders 13
Choosing categories of content to be backed up 13
Choosing folders to search for content 14
RESTORING MY CONTENT 17
WHAT IF MY COMPUTER’S INTERNAL HARD DISK STOPS WORKING, OR I WOULD LIKE TO TRANSFER MY
CONTENT TO A NEW COMPUTER
? 17
What gets restored, and to where? 18
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Restoring content 21
Choosing categories of content to be restored 21
Choosing where to restore content to 22
BROWSING & SEARCHING FOR MY FILES 25
Starting from the Welcome window 25
From the Backup Summary window 25
ADVANCED TOPICS 27
How is backup different when I have more than one computer? 27
How do I make multiple backups? 27
Manage Backups 28
Master reset 29
Updating Clickfree software 30
LEGAL STUFF 33
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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 stored on your computer. No hardware configuration or software installation is required. The backup procedure begins once the Backup Drive has been attached to your computer.
Caution: Please remember that a backup is meant to be a second copy of your computer
data, not the only copy of your data. Having two copies (redundancy) is what keeps your important data safe. Please use your safe copy of your data.

MAIN FEATURES

Clickfree backup technology
• Automatically starts when connected to your computer
• Does not require any software installation or setup
• For most users automatically backs up everything that matters
Clickfree Backup Drive to keep a
Customizable backup options
• Includes options for custom file types and full folder backup
• Still runs as
• Remembers your customized settings for each user you use it with
Multi-computer backup
• Can hold the backups for as many users as you like, depending only on the available space on the Backup Drive
Easy restore to same or other computer
• Backed-up content can quickly and easily be restored
• You can just as easily ‘restore’ content to a different computer as to the original one
• This makes
your new one
How it backs up
• The first time you connect a for, finds, backs up and organizes all of your important content
• Each subsequent time you connect update:
• Any new files since your last backup are added to the backup
• Any files that were changed since your last backup are updated on the
• Any files that were deleted from your computer since the last backup, are
Clickfree, even after customizing settings
Clickfree a great way to move your content from your old computer to
Clickfree Backup Drive to your computer it searches
Clickfree to your computer, it just does an
backup
left on the backup
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PACKAGE CONTENTS

Clickfree backup package contains:
Your
• one
• one USB cable to attach the Backup Drive to your computer
• one quick start guide
EFINITIONS
D
Just to make sure that the user guide is clear, we’re going to define a couple of terms that are used throughout the guide.
Back up and Restore
Backing up is making copies of data so that a copy can be used to restore the original after the data is lost or destroyed. Backups are used to restore data after loss of or damage to your computer’s hard disk, and to restore files that have been accidentally deleted or corrupted.
Making a backup of your content only copies it from your computer to your Backup Drive, and does not delete it from the computer’s hard disk.
Restoring your content from a backup only copies it from your Backup Drive to your computer, and does not delete it from the Backup Drive.
Important:
Clickfree Backup Drive
Clickfree never erases or replaces content on your computer’s hard disk, unless
you ask it to replace a file during restore.
Clickfree never erases anything other than the backups it has performed. Any
other data stored on your Backup Drive is left untouched and is never erased
The only exception to this is if you previously used your Backup Drive with a non-Mac computer and saved files on it outside of reformat the Backup Drive for use with the Mac, all data on the disk will be lost. Be sure to copy valuable content before reformatting.
And unless you ask it to remove backed-up content, replaces content on your Backup Drive.
Clickfree backups. Because you will need to
Clickfree never erases or
Your Clickfree backups are also handy for moving or copying data from one computer to another.
Content
Normally you don’t use the data that you have created or copied to your computer – music, photos, letters, emails etc. In this guide we refer to this data as
File
Information used by your computer and stored in a specific place on your hard disk. A may be some way.
content, an application or part of an application, or information a program uses in
Clickfree to back up your applications or operating system, only
content.
file
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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 message may be just a part of a large file that contains many messages, and related information such as email addresses, calendar events etc. However, you don’t need to be concerned about this because the details for you.
Clickfree takes care of all
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Basics

HOW DOES CLICKFREE 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 configure anything. Your computer knows when
Clickfree has been plugged in, and it runs the backup program automatically each time it
is connected.
You can back up as many computers as you like with the same thing happens each time you plug it into a new computer. And each of your backed­up computers is kept separate on your Backup Drive.
When store in a safe place, or leave it plugged in and just push the Backup button at any time to perform another backup.
If your data is lost for any reason (hard disk crash, laptop lost or stolen, content accidentally deleted), you’ll be really happy that you bought and used backed-up content is safe on your a working computer again.
A new one.
Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, the program may not run by itself – it may need a little help. If this happens to you, don’t worry – it’s easy to get things going. We’ll show you how a little later. For details, see “ page
Clickfree has finished backing up each computer, just unplug the Backup Drive and
Clickfree backup is also ideal for transferring your content from an old computer to a
32.

WHAT GETS BACKED UP?

Clickfree Backup Drive. The
Clickfree. Your
Clickfree backup, waiting to be restored when you have
What do I do if Clickfree doesn’t start automatically?” on

CLICKFREE BACKS UP CONTENT

Clickfree we want to protect our customers from losing things that are irreplaceable.
At That’s why computer.
When it runs automatically, where you normally put all of the content that you create or place in your computer. This includes photos, music, video, office documents, financial data, email, etc Most likely, this means that it will back up everything that matters to you right out of the box without you having to do anything but plug it in.
Unless you explicitly ask it to do so, operating system. This means that your backup won’t need nearly as much space as the size of your computer’s hard disk since your content may only take up a small portion of your hard disk’s capacity, and we only back up the content.
Clickfree finds and backs up all of the content from wherever it is on your
Clickfree backs up everything in your Home folder – this is
Clickfree does not back up the applications or the
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DOES CLICKFREE BACK UP ALL OF MY CONTENT EVERY TIME?

The first time you back up your computer which might take some time – it just depends on how much content you have. Each time you use quicker.
W
HAT CONTENT CATEGORIES DOES CLICKFREE BACK UP?
If you choose to back up by content category (rather than backing up your entire Home folder),
Want to know more? You can look at the details by following the steps in “ change how Clickfree does backups
Clickfree after that, it only backs up the new or changed content, so it will be much
Clickfree backs up content in these categories:
• Office Documents – usually from word-processing programs such as AbiWord,
Microsoft Word, NeoOffice, iWork, Adobe files
• Music – including CAF, CD audio, MP3, MIDI
• Videos – for example, AVI, MPEG, Shockwave Flash
• Photos – including common graphic formats such as JPEG, TIFF, and RAW
• Emails and Messages – including Apple Mail, Entourage, Thunderbird
• Favorite Websites – internet shortcuts and address books
• Other – including Stuffit and hqx files, XML, and comma-separated values files
” on page 12 without making any changes.
Clickfree backs up the entire Home folder,
How do I

WHAT DO I NEED BEFORE I START?

All you need to start your backup is the Clickfree Backup Drive and the included USB cable. Before you start your first Restore, you should read through the “ content
In addition you need:
” chapter of this manual.
• For
• One free USB port on your computer
• At least 100 MB of free space on your computer
Clickfree to work, your computer needs to be running Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard
on an Intel processor
Restoring my
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Backing up my content

HOW DO I START USING MY CLICKFREE BACKUP DRIVE?

♦ To start using your Clickfree Backup Drive:
1. Make sure that your computer is switched on and has finished starting up.
2. Log in, if that is what you normally do.
3. Attach the cable to the drive and the other end to a USB port on your computer.
USB ports usually looks like this:
Wait for the Clickfree window to appear. You may have to wait up to a full minute for your computer to recognize the
4. The first time window appears on the desktop.
5. Double-click the icon to start the backup. Every time after the first time the backup starts by itself.
Clickfree Backup Drive to your computer by connecting one end of the USB
.
Clickfree Backup Drive.
you connect your Clickfree Backup Drive, the Start Clickfree Backup
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You then see a dialog that allows you to choose to make the Backup Drive work with the Mac by formatting it as HFS.
Click . Clickfree then reformats the Backup Drive.
When the number of seconds left before the backup starts automatically:
Note: The
Clickfree backup starts to run, a Welcome window appears and shows the
View Files and Restore buttons do not appear until you have backed up
content on your Backup Drive.

ZERO EFFORT BACKUP – REALLY!

Unless you stop the countdown by clicking a button, at the end of the countdown period
Clickfree starts the backup.
• If you want to let
you’re done
Without any effort on your part, Clickfree is safeguarding your valuable content!
For details, see “
Clickfree decide what needs to be backed up from where, then
: just relax and let Clickfree work.
What gets backed up?” on page 7.
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