Clickfree DVD Transformer User Manual

Clickfree DVD Transformer User Guide

for Apple Macintosh users

Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Contents

Contents

INTRODUCING CLICKFREE DVD TRANSFORMER 4

Main Features 4

Package contents 5

Definitions 5

BASICS 7

HOW DOES CLICKFREE WORK? 7

WHAT 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 back up? 8

WHAT DO I NEED BEFORE I START? 8

BACKING UP MY CONTENT 9

HOW DO I START USING MY CLICKFREE DVD TRANSFORMER? 9

ZERO EFFORT BACKUP – REALLY! 10

HOW DO I CHANGE HOW CLICKFREE DOES BACKUPS? 13

Choosing what to back up 14

Backing up all of the files in selected folders 14

Choosing categories of content to be backed up 15

Choosing folders to search for content 15

RESTORING MY CONTENT 19

WHAT IF MY COMPUTER’S INTERNAL HARD DISK STOPS WORKING, OR I WOULD LIKE TO TRANSFER MY

CONTENT TO A NEW COMPUTER? 19

WHAT DO I NEED BEFORE I CAN USE CLICKFREE TO RESTORE OR TRANSFER MY CONTENT? 19

HOW DO I GET MY CONTENT BACK? 19

What gets restored, and to where? 20

HOW DO I LET CLICKFREE RESTORE DECIDE WHAT TO RESTORE AND WHERE? 20

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HOW DO I CHANGE HOW CLICKFREE RESTORES CONTENT? 24

Restoring content 24

Choosing categories of content to be restored 24

Choosing where to restore content to 25

BROWSING & SEARCHING FOR MY FILES 28

Starting from the Welcome window 28

From the Backup Summary window 28

ADVANCED TOPICS 30

WHAT IF I HAVE MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER? 30

How is backup different when I have more than one computer? 30

HOW DO I RESTORE MY FILES USING ONLY THE BACKUP DISKS? 30

HOW DO I MAKE MULTIPLE BACKUPS? 31

CLICKFREE TOOLS 31

Manage Backups 32

Master reset 33

Updating Clickfree software 33

Verify 34

HOW DO I CHOOSE INDIVIDUAL FILES FOR RESTORE? 35

WHAT DO I DO IF CLICKFREE DOESN’T START AUTOMATICALLY? 36

LEGAL STUFF 37

Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Transformer

Introducing Clickfree DVD Transformer

Thank you for buying the Clickfree DVD Transformer – 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 DVD Transformer 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 Clickfree DVD Transformer to keep a 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

Customizable backup options

• Includes options for custom file types and full folder backup

• Still runs as Clickfree, even after customizing settings

• Remembers your customized settings for each user you use it with

Multi-computer backup

• Holds information about all of the backups you make while using it. It can hold the information for any number of computers Note: You need separate recordable media for each computer – each CD or DVD can be used for only one backup.

Easy restore to same or other computer

• Backed-up content can quickly and easily be restored

• You don’t need the DVD Transformer to restore content – if necessary, a restore can

be done using only the recordable media containing the backed-up files. However, unless the DVD Transformer is not available, you should always use it for a restore.

• You can just as easily ‘restore’ content to a different computer as to the original one

• This makes the Clickfree DVD Transformer a great way to move your content from

your old computer to your new one

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How it backs up

• The first time you connect a Clickfree DVD Transformer to your computer it searches for, finds, backs up and organizes all of your important content

• Each subsequent time you connect the Clickfree DVD Transformer to your computer, you can choose to just do an 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

backup

• Any files that were deleted from your computer since the last backup, are ignored

ACKAGE CONTENTS

Your Clickfree backup package contains:

• one Clickfree DVD Transformer

• one quick start guide

EFINITIONS

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 disk, and does not delete it from the computer’s hard disk.

Restoring your content from a backup only copies it from your backup disk to your computer, and does not delete it from the backup disk.

Important: 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 from your backup disks.

And unless you ask it to remove back up history, Clickfree never erases the history.

Your Clickfree backups are also handy for moving or copying data from one computer to another.

Backup disks

Generally, throughout this guide, the recordable media (CDs and DVDs) used to back up your content are referred to as backup disks.

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Content

Normally you don’t use Clickfree to back up your applications or operating system, only 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 content.

File

Information used by your computer and stored in a specific place on your hard disk. A file may be content, an application or part of an application, or information a program uses in some way.

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 Clickfree takes care of all the details for you.

History

Important: Although the DVD Transformer backs up all of your content to backup disks, and all of your content can be restored using the backup disks alone (that is, without using the DVD Transformer), if possible you should always perform restores and transfers with the DVD Transformer plugged in. This is because backup history is stored on the DVD Transformer.

This includes information about which disk holds which files, and, in particular, which disk has the most up-to-date version of a file that has been backed up more than once.

Without the DVD Transformer, to restore your files you will likely need to run restore from multiple backups to be sure that you can restore all of your files in their most current versions.

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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 the

Clickfree DVD Transformer in to your computer, supply recordable media when

prompted, and let it work!

No need to install software or to configure anything. Your computer knows when the

Clickfree DVD Transformer 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 Clickfree DVD Transformer. The same thing happens each time you plug it into a new computer. And information about each of your backed-up computers is kept separate on the DVD Transformer.

When Clickfree has finished backing up each computer, just unplug the DVD Transformer, eject the backup disk, and store them in a safe place.

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 Clickfree. Your backed-up content is safe on your Clickfree backup, waiting to be restored when you have a working computer again.

A Clickfree backup is also ideal for transferring your content from an old computer to 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 “

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WHAT GETS BACKED UP?

CLICKFREE BACKS UP CONTENT

At Clickfree we want to protect our customers from losing things that are irreplaceable. That’s why Clickfree finds and backs up all of the content from wherever it is on your computer.

When it runs automatically, Clickfree backs up everything in your Home folder – this is 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.

What do I do if Clickfree doesn’t start automatically?” on

Unless you explicitly ask it to do so, Clickfree does not back up the applications or the 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.

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DOES CLICKFREE BACK UP ALL OF MY CONTENT EVERY TIME?

The first time you back up your computer Clickfree backs up the entire Home folder, which might take some time – it just depends on how much content you have. Each time you use Clickfree after that, you can choose to back up only the new or changed content, so it will be much quicker.

HAT CONTENT CATEGORIES DOES CLICKFREE BACK UP?

If you choose to back up by content category (rather than backing up your entire Home folder), 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

Want to know more? You can look at the details by following the steps in “ change how Clickfree does backups?

WHAT DO I NEED BEFORE I START?

All you need to start your backup is the Clickfree DVD Transformer. Before you start your first Restore, you should read through the “

• For Clickfree to work, your computer needs to be running Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard

on an Intel processor

In addition you need:

• One free USB port on your computer

• At least 100 MB of free space on your computer

How do I

” on page 13 without making any changes.

Restoring my content” chapter of this manual.

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Backing up my content

HOW DO I START USING MY CLICKFREE DVD TRANSFORMER?

♦ To start using your Clickfree DVD Transformer:

1. Make sure that your computer is switched on and has finished starting up.

2. Log in, if that is what you normally do.

Note: You should close all open applications before starting to back up your files.

3. Attach the Clickfree DVD Transformer to your computer by plugging it in 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 Clickfree DVD Transformer.

4. The first time

Backup

5. Double-click the icon to start the backup. Every time after the first time the backup starts by itself.

When the Clickfree backup starts to run, a number of seconds left before the backup starts automatically:

window appears on the desktop.

you connect your Clickfree DVD Transformer, the Start Clickfree

Welcome window appears and shows the

Note: The

View Files and Restore buttons do not appear until you have backed up

content using the DVD Transformer.

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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 Clickfree decide what needs to be backed up from where, then

you’re done: just relax and let Clickfree work.

All you need to do is to put recordable media in your CD/DVD writer when prompted.

Without any effort on your part, Clickfree is safeguarding your valuable content!

For details, see “

1. If you want to make changes to how backup is done, click change how Clickfree does backups?

Clickfree displays some windows to show progress:

What gets backed up?” on page 7.

” on page 13.

Options and see “How do I

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2. Click OK.

3. Choose whether you are backing up onto CD or DVD.

Note: At this point, Clickfree calculates how many disks are needed to hold all of the

files you want to back up. If you don’t have enough disks, click up, and deselect some files or file categories.

Options to go back to choosing what to back

If you previously backed up this computer, you can choose whether to backup only files that are new or have changed since the last backup.

4. Click

If needed, Clickfree prompts you when to put recordable media in your CD/DVD writer.

Clickfree then backs up the content you chose to your backup disk(s):

I’m Ready-Start Backup.

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5. At the end of the backup, the backup disk is ejected, and you are prompted to label it:

6. Click

The backed up this time ( one ( from all backups take up on their respective backup disks.

When you see the Backup Summary window, unplug the DVD Transformer, label the backup disk(s), and store them in a safe place.

OK.

Backup Summary window shows you how many files in each category were

New column) and from all backups for this user, including this

Total column). The Space Used column shows the amount of space that files

Note: Clickfree tells you to label the disk with a number and date.

If you have more than one computer to back up, you should also write the computer’s name (seen on the Backup Summary screen) on the disk. In addition, since Clickfree identifies backups by number, date, and time, you should also write the time of backup if it is possible that you may make more than one backup in a day.

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