Freecom Datacard User Manual
Carry it Easy™
User Guide
Edition
User Manual Version 2.0
© 2004-2006 CoSoSys SRL
Carry it Easy™ – User Manual
Carry it Easy™ – User Manual
Table of Contents
Table of Contents ...................................................................................................I
1. Introduction ...................................................................................................1
2. System Requirements ..................................................................................2
3. Installation .....................................................................................................2
4. Getting Started ..............................................................................................3
4.1. Start Carry it Easy....................................................................................3
4.2. General Navigation ..................................................................................4
4.3. USB Drive / Portable Storage Capacity ...................................................4
5. Working with Carry it Easy...........................................................................5
5.1. Security Settings ......................................................................................5
5.1.1. Hardware based password protection & partitioning ...................5
(for some USB Flash Drives).....................................................................5
5.1.2. Software encryption based password protection .........................7
(for most portable storage devices) ...........................................................7
5.2. Internet Favorites Synchronization...........................................................9
5.3. No Trace Internet Browsing ...................................................................10
5.4. Deleting Internet Browsing history .........................................................11
5.5. Portable Outlook Express Data..............................................................11
5.6. My Documents synchronization .............................................................13
5.7. View and Edit My Documents on portable storage ................................13
5.8. Data Compression on the Device ..........................................................14
5.9. Folder and Desktop synchronization......................................................14
5.10. Adding files and folders to your portable storage device........................15
5.11. USB Drive Lost & Found™ ....................................................................16
5.12. Work with the system tray menu............................................................16
5.13. Safely remove hardware ........................................................................16
5.14. Configuring Multiple Devices at the same time ......................................17
6. Update Mechanism .....................................................................................18
7. Support ........................................................................................................18
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1. Introduction
Carry it Easy™ will enhance the functionality of your portable storage device and
help you keep your personal data available on the road.
With Carry it Easy and your portable storage device you can:
keep your Internet Explorer Favorites/Firefox Bookmarks synchronized,
keep your Outlook Express data portable,
keep your Folders, Desktop and My Documents data synchronized,
compress your data to save valuable memory space,
password protect / (encrypt )all the data on your portable storage device,
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partition the USB Drive into Public and Private areas
surf the internet without leaving a trace behind with Internet Explorer and Firefox,
and in case you loose your portable storage device, the finder can contact you just by
,
using the USB Drive Lost & Found™ information (without having access to your
private files).
Warning!
While using Carry it Easy, you should never disconnect your Device without
closing Carry it Easy properly first, via the exit button and then using the
“Safely Remove Hardware” option of Windows (see description below).
To use Carry it Easy, it is required to format your Device. Make sure to make a
backup of all your data on the Device before you run Carry it Easy otherwise
your data will be lost.
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Not available for all USB Flash Drives.
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2. System Requirements
Operating Systems:
o Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
o Windows XP (Service Pack 2 is recommended)
o Administrative rights on your computer
Internet Explorer (version 5.0 and higher) or Mozilla Firefox version 1.0 and
higher
Outlook Express version 5.0 and higher
and to be able to use the portable outlook express e-mail, the remote PC has
to have Outlook Express installed as well.
In case your Outlook Express was uninstalled, you will still be able to use the
other functions of Carry it Easy. The Outlook Express option will be disabled.
Available USB port
USB Drive (USB Flash Memory Drive) or flash based MP3 Player or SD Card,
of many storage card formats.
If your portable storage device has a manual write protection switch (lock) it
must be in the unprotected position in order to be able to use Carry it Easy.
(A U3 smart Drive only required for the use with Carry it Easy U3 Edition)
3. Installation
Carry it Easy usually comes pre-installed on your portable storage device (e.g.
USB Flash Drive).
If you downloaded Carry it Easy from the internet you have to copy the
CarryItEasy.exe on your USB Drive or other supported portable storage media.
No installation process on your PC is needed. Simply double-click the
CarryitEasy.exe file and you can immediately start using the application.
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In case your USB Drive didn’t include a CD-ROM with a copy of Carry it Easy we
recommend, that you make a backup copy of the CarryitEasy.exe to another storage
device.
To start/use Carry it Easy always start the CarryItEasy.exe from your USB Device.
4. Getting Started
4.1. Start Carry it Easy
To start Carry it Easy, plug-in your USB Drive or connect your portable storage
device and open My Computer (Windows Explorer).
Open the USB Drive or removable storage drive with the drive letter e.g. D: or F:
depending on your computer and double-click the CarryitEasy.exe to start the
application.
The CarryitEasy.exe file will remain on your USB Drive in order to be able to use the
application when you switch between different computers. Please always run the
application from the USB Drive and not from your hard disk or your desktop.
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4.2. General Navigation
Every time you start Carry it Easy, you will come first to the
welcome window either directly or after having logged in with
your password. On the left side of the window you will have the
main functions permanently available (see picture to the left).
Just click for example the Internet Favorites option, and you will
have the function available. You also have access to most
features through the system tray icon. The system tray functions
are described below.
4.3. USB Drive / Portable Storage Capacity
On the bottom of the main window, you always have displayed a fill bar indicating the
capacity available and the already used capacity of your USB Drive. When you make
a new selection e.g. of a My Documents folder you want to synchronize, the fill bar
will jump to the new capacity used to indicate what capacity would still be left on the
Device. [If the USB Flash Drive is partitioned the fill bar will indicate the size of the
Private area (password protected area) only. You can see the size of the Public area
(not password protected) by pressing the “Device Information” button.]
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