Clickfree Portable Backup Drive User Guide for Apple Macintosh users
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Contents Contents INTRODUCING CLICKFREE PORTABLE BACKUP DRIVE 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? BACKING UP MY CONTENT HOW DO I START USING MY CLICKFREE PORTABLE BACKUP DRIVE? 8 9 9 ZERO E
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Contents HOW DO I LET CLICKFREE RESTORE DECIDE WHAT TO RESTORE AND WHERE? 18 HOW DO I CHANGE HOW CLICKFREE RESTORES CONTENT? 21 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 HOW DO I BROWSE MY BACKED-UP FILES? 26 ADVANCED TOPICS WHAT IF I HAVE MORE THAN ONE COMPU
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree Portable Backup Drive Introducing Clickfree Portable Backup Drive Thank you for buying the Clickfree Portable 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.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree Portable Backup Drive PACKAGE CONTENTS Your Clickfree backup package contains: • • • one Clickfree Portable Backup Drive one USB cable to attach the Portable Backup Drive to your computer one quick start guide DEFINITIONS 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.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree Portable Backup Drive 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.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Basics 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 Clickfree Portable Backup Drive.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Basics 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, it only backs up the new or changed content, so it will be much quicker.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content Backing up my content HOW DO I START USING MY CLICKFREE PORTABLE BACKUP DRIVE? ♦ To start using your Clickfree Portable 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 Clickfree Portable Backup Drive to your computer by connecting one end of the USB cable to the drive and the other end to a USB port on your computer.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content When the Clickfree backup starts to run, a Welcome window appears and shows the number of seconds left before the backup starts automatically: Note: The View Files and Restore buttons do not appear until you have backed up content on your Portable 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.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content The Backup Summary window shows you how many files in each category were backed up this time (New column) and from all backups for this user, including this one (Total column). The Space Used column shows the amount of space that files from all backups take up on the Portable Backup Drive.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide ♦ Backing up my content To review or change what gets backed up: 1. Follow steps 1 to 3 of the procedure “How do I start using my Clickfree Portable Backup Drive?” on page 9. 2. Before the countdown reaches zero, click Options. The Options / Tools window is displayed: CHOOSING WHAT TO BACK UP 3.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content BACKING UP ALL OF THE FILES IN SELECTED FOLDERS 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 folder: a. Click b. Navigate to the folder to be added c. Click Open • To remove a folder: a. Select the folder to be removed b.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content CHOOSING 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 add a folder: a. Click b. Navigate to the folder to be added c. Click Open • To remove a folder: a. Select the folder to be removed b.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content Clickfree backs up your content If there is enough space on your Portable Backup Drive, Clickfree then backs up the content you chose to your Portable Backup Drive: At the end of the backup, a Backup Summary window is displayed: The Backup Summary window shows you how many files in each category were backed up this time (New column), and from all backups including this one, for this user (Total column).
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content WHAT IF THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE ON MY CLICKFREE PORTABLE BACKUP DRIVE? 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 Portable Backup Drive.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content Restoring my content WHAT IF MY COMPUTER’S INTERNAL HARD DISK STOPS WORKING, OR I WOULD LIKE TO TRANSFER MY CONTENT TO A NEW COMPUTER? All computer hard disks fail eventually, sometimes without warning. Occasionally, computers suffer damage that affects the hard disk. Sometimes, laptop computers get lost or stolen. Sometimes, also, you may delete content by mistake.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content WHAT GETS RESTORED, AND TO WHERE? 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 files to any place on your computer’s hard disk that is convenient for you.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content 5. Before the countdown gets to zero, click Restore. The 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 restored, look at the user name in the Please select the User you would like to restore box.
Clickfree Portable 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 your computer with one of the same name from the backed-up files, Clickfree asks if you want to replace the existing file with the one from the backup: 12.
Clickfree Portable 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 restore folder, click the button below Your files have been restored to. 15. To finish, simply unplug the Clickfree Portable Backup Drive and store it in a safe place. Note: Your content has not been deleted from your Clickfree backup: it is still safe on the Portable Backup Drive.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content CHOOSING WHERE TO RESTORE CONTENT TO 5. What you do next depends on whether you want to restore your content to the default folder or to somewhere else. • • If you want to restore your content to the default folder, click Continue and go to step 8. If you want to restore your files to another folder, click Change Destination, and continue with step 6. 6. Navigate to your chosen destination and click Open. 7. Click Continue.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content Before it overwrites an existing file on your computer with one of the same name from the backed-up files, Clickfree asks if you want to replace the existing file with the samename file from the backup: 9. You can choose to: • • • • • • Keep both copies of this one file – click Keep Both. Clickfree renames the backedup file by adding ‘ copy’ to the end of the file name, then restores the renamed file.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content 10. To open a Finder window at the restore folder, click the button below Your files have been restored to. 11. To finish, simply unplug the Clickfree Portable Backup Drive and store it in a safe place. Note: Your content has not been deleted from your Clickfree backup: it is still safe on the Portable Backup Drive.
Clickfree Portable 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 STARTING FROM THE WELCOME WINDOW ♦ To browse and search for files: Before the countdown gets to zero, click View Files. The Backup Summary window is displayed. FROM THE BACKUP SUMMARY WINDOW ♦ To browse and search for files: 1.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Browsing & searching for my files HOW 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 the folders that contain files from the category that corresponds to the number you clicked: Select a folder to view the files it contains. Copyright © 2009 Storage Appliance Corporation.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics Advanced topics WHAT IF I HAVE MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER? Clickfree Portable Backup Drive can back as many computers as you like: you are limited only by the amount of space on your Portable Backup Drive. Clickfree creates a unique identifier for each computer and user that it is used with, regardless of the computer’s and user’s names.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics CLICKFREE TOOLS Several tools are available for working with Clickfree: • • • ♦ Manage backups – shows backup information and allows you to remove all backups for a user Master reset - removes all backed-up content from your Portable Backup Drive, and undoes any changes you have made to the backup settings. Update – upgrades the Clickfree software To use these tools: 1.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics MANAGE BACKUPS ♦ To remove a user: If you no longer want to keep content backed up from a user, you can free up space on your Portable Backup Drive by removing the user from Clickfree. Warning: If you have not restored the content and you still want to keep it, do not remove the user from Clickfree: you cannot restore content from a user that you have removed. On the Manage Backups window: 1. Click the user you want to remove. 2.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics 1. On the Tools window click Master reset. 2. If you really want to remove all backed-up content from Clickfree, click Continue. Warning: Once you have reset Clickfree using the Master Reset there is no way to recover any backed-up content from the Portable Backup Drive. Clickfree may take several minutes to erase all of the content, depending on the amount of content backed up on the Portable Backup Drive.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide ♦ Advanced topics To check manually for updates: 1. On the Tools window click Update. Clickfree checks for available updates. If the software in your Clickfree Portable Backup Drive and your computer is up to date, click OK on the dialog that pops up.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide ♦ Advanced topics To select/deselect files within a category: 1. Click any of the underlined numbers (for example, ). The window that opens lists, on the left, all of the folders that contain files from the category that corresponds to the number you clicked: Select a folder to view the files it contains. By default, all of the files in the folder are selected. 2. Select and deselect files as you normally do in a Finder window. 3. Click OK.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Advanced topics WHAT DO I DO IF CLICKFREE DOESN’T START AUTOMATICALLY? If Clickfree does not run when you plug in the Clickfree Portable Backup Drive: • • • If you are connecting the Portable Backup Drive to a USB hub (which could be in your monitor or keyboard), the hub may not provide enough power for a Portable Backup Drive.
Clickfree Portable Backup Drive for Macintosh: User Guide Legal stuff Legal stuff Clickfree and the Clickfree logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Storage Appliance Corporation. Other product names used in this guide are recognized as trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners.
