Selecting content to retrieve
Use the Select content to retrieve from ... dialog to specify what you want to retrieve from your My Book or My Passport drive and start the retrieve:
- Retrieve All Files
- Retrieve Some Files
To retrieve all files:
- Select the Retrieve All Files option.
- Click Start Retrieving.
The WD SmartWare™ software retrieves all of the files from the selected backed up volume on your My Book or My Passport drive and copies them to the specified destination on your computer.
To retrieve some files:
- Select the Retrieve Some Files option to display the Select content to retrieve from ... dialog.
- In the Retrieve Some Files selection box, navigate through the folder structure to find the files that you want to retrieve. You can also use the search box by typing the name (or partial name) of the file or folder.
- Select the Show older files check box to display the different backed up versions of your files.
- Select the Show deleted files check box to display backed up files that have been deleted from their original locations.
- Select the View icon to list individual files.
- Type all or part of the file or folder name in the search box and press the Enter key to initiate a search.
To eliminate the search filter, delete all of the text in the search box and press Enter.
- Select the check boxes for the files or folders that you want to retrieve.
Note that selecting the check box for a folder automatically selects all of the files in the folder.
- Click Start Retrieving.
The WD SmartWare software retrieves the selected files from the selected backed up volume on your My Book or My Passport drive and copies them to the specified destination on your computer.