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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL
USER MANUAL
RETRIEVING BACKED UP FILES – 22
Retrieving Backed Up Files
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Retrieving Files
Retrieving a File/Folder
Retrieving a Folder
Retrieving an Earlier Version of a File or Deleted Files
Retrieving All of Your Content
Retrieving Files Directly from the Drive
About Retrieving Files
The WD SmartWare software makes it easy for you to retrieve files that have been
backed up on your My Passport drive and either:
• Restore them to their original locations on your computer
• Copy them to a special retrieve folder
Retrieve is generally a five-step process:
1.
Choose the drive to retrieve content from on the Home screen.
2. Choose the backup you want to retrieve content from. (This is only required if you
have created several different backups on your My Passport drive.)
3. Choose whether content will be retrieved to a special retrieval folder or to the original
location.
4. Choose what content to retrieve, either files, folders, or everything.
5. Retrieve the content.
Retrieving a File/Folder
After selecting the drive on the Home screen, you can retrieve files or complete folders
from your My Passport drive. To retrieve a file or folder from your drive:
1.
Click the Retrieve tab to display the Retrieve screen (see Figure 12 on
page 23).
2. In the Backed Up Volumes box, select the WD SmartWare volume that you want to
retrieve a file or folder from and click Select Destination to display the Select a
destination for retrieved files screen (see Figure 13 on page 24).
3. On the Select a destination for retrieved files screen:
IF you want to copy your
retrieved content to . . .
THEN . . .
Its original location, a. Select the To the Original Places option.
b. Click Select Files to display the Select content to
retrieve... screen (see Figure 14 on page 24) and
proceed to step 4 on page 25.
