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Clickfree DVD Transformer User Guide
for Apple Macintosh users
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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 – R
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Contents 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
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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 Transf
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Transformer 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
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Transformer 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 inform
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Clickfree DVD Transformer 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 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
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Clickfree DVD Transformer 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, you can choose to back up only the new or changed content, so it will be much quicker. WHAT CONTENT CATEGORIES DOES CLICKFREE BACK UP? If you choose to back up by content category (r
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content 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
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content 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
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content 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 Options to go back to choosing what to back up, and deselect some files or file categories. If you previously backed up this computer, you can choose whether to backup only files that are new or hav
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content 5. At the end of the backup, the backup disk is ejected, and you are prompted to label it: 6. Click OK. 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 their respective backup disks. When you see the
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content HOW DO I CHANGE HOW CLICKFREE DOES BACKUPS? You can decide whether Clickfree backs up complete folders, or backs up content by category (for example, Office Documents). The default is to back up your complete Home folder. If you choose to back up content by category, you can choose: • The categories of content Clickfree backs up • Where Clickfree looks for this content Note: Changes you make to how Clickfree does
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content CHOOSING WHAT TO BACK UP 3. If you want Clickfree to check that all files have been written to the backup disk properly, and can be read, check Please click on this checkbox …. For information about how this works, click . 4. You can either back up all of the files in selected folders (for example, your Home folder), or you can choose the categories of content to back up (for example, Office Documents, Photos, and V
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content CHOOSING CATEGORIES OF CONTENT TO BE BACKED UP All of the categories are selected by default. 7. Choose the categories of content to be backed up, for example, Office Documents, Photos, and Videos. • To include a category, for example, Photos, in the backup, make sure that the box to the left of the category name is checked . If it isn’t, click the box to check it. You can add and remove the checkmark by clicking i
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content Clickfree searches for content to back up Before actually backing up any content, Clickfree adds up the sizes of the files in the complete folders you chose, or searches the folders you chose for your chosen categories of content and adds up the sizes of all of the content it finds: Clickfree backs up your content 11. Choose whether you are backing up onto CD or DVD. Note: At this point, Clickfree calculates ho
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content Clickfree then backs up the content you chose to your backup disk(s): At the end of the backup, the backup disk is ejected, and you are prompted to label it: 13. Click OK. 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). The Space Used column shows the amount of space that files from
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Backing up my content When you see the Backup Summary window, unplug the DVD Transformer, label the backup disk(s), and store them in a safe place. 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 a
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Clickfree DVD Transformer 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. When these things happen, other computer users may
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Clickfree DVD Transformer for Macintosh: User Guide Restoring my content Note: At the start of a restore, Clickfree asks you to insert a backup disk with a particular number and date. In addition, as the restore proceeds, if you have backed up the computer more than once, Clickfree may ask you to insert one or more other backup disks with a particular numbers and dates. WHAT GETS RESTORED, AND TO WHERE? When Clickfree restore runs without you changing any options, it restores all of the
