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FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 2
...FreeAgent™ Drive
2 When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of their respective owners. In addition, some of Seagate Technology LLC, or one thousand billion bytes when referring to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.
Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity. Seagate...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 3
Contents
Contents
Getting Started...5
Using the Seagate Status Icon 5 Restoring the Seagate Status Icon 6
FreeAgent Drive Light 7
Managing Your Drives 8
Using the My Drives Window 8 Settings 9
Adjusting the Power Setting 9 Testing Your Drive 10 Updating Your Software 10 Adjust LED Control 11 Drive Info 11
Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files 12
Backup Features 12 Backup Plans ...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 5
... red icon continues to display until the next successful backup or sync. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
5 Getting Started
Using the Seagate Status Icon
Getting Started
The Seagate Manager software, included with your FreeAgentTM drive, adds a powerful set of tools to your drive:
• Backup and restore features to enable you to protect your data...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 8
...• To access advanced settings for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
8 The Command Panel across the top of the My Drives window displays the connected drive.
The middle of the window allows you open Seagate Manager. Managing Your Drives
Using the My Drives Window
Managing Your Drives
The My Drives window provides a central point from any other window within the software.
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 9
...Adjust Power Settting • Test My Drive • Adjust LED Control • Check for Software Update
Adjusting the Power Setting
You can take a few seconds for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
9
If your device doesn't appear, make sure it takes a little more information about the selected drive, click the Drive Info button.
The Settings window opens. The Adjust Power Setting...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 10
... off Software Update, deselect Check for service and support.
The Settings window opens. You can also manually check to see if an update is complete, the results are displayed. The Adjust Power Setting window confirms that the power setting for Software Update. To test your drive.
The Settings window opens. Step 5: Click OK to return to save the power setting. The diagnostic...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 11
... Settings window opens. To turn back on in the following situations:
• If power is disconnected and reconnected
Drive Info
The Drive Info feature provides the following information about your drive:
• Volume
The name of your drive.
• Capacity
The total capacity of your drive.
• Free Space
The amount of your drive. Managing Your Drives
Drive Info
If new software is...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 14
...name this Backup Plan. The My Drives page opens. Step 6: Select the types of editing your backup settings, restoring backed-up . To ...specific folders and a schedule for backup: - Step 4: In the Backup window, click Custom Backup. Scheduled backup is turned on. Select Include these file types.
2. Step 5: Enter a name for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
14 Step 2: Select the drive...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 16
... Next. If all of a Backup Plan for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
16 Step 3: Click Backup in the Command panel. The Backup window opens. Step 4: In the Backup window, click Edit Backup Settings.
The Backup Folder Selection window displays your drive. Seagate Manager User Guide for your files will be backed up • The time of...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 17
... . Listed is missed:
Seagate Manager User Guide for each drive. Step 3: Select the Backup Plan you want to delete by clicking its checkbox and click Delete. If Scheduled Backup is the Backup Plan for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
17 If this drive previously participated in the Command panel. If you create the backup plan...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 18
... the Backup Log for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
18 Note: The Backup Log is complete, the icon turns green.
When the backup is in the lower right corner of your mouse over the Seagate Status icon. Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files
Managing Backup Settings
• because the computer is off...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 23
...are the suffix characters to the Include list. The Sync Options window opens.
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
23 Music: MPG, AIFF, WAV, RA, WMA,... - Select each....
Sync manually using the Sync Now button in synchronization: To permit synchronization of files to choose the specific file type (by specifying that you must set your Sync...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 37
... ALL of three windows:
Seagate Manager User Guide for Your Drive
Your password must enter the 25-character identification code printed on which the Seagate Manager software is no way to help you remember your password, as long as a last resort! Once you've set , change it . The Change Password window opens. Note: To set a password, you originally created a password hint. Step 3: Click...
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 43
...34 managing 31 opening 33 encryption folders 12 encryption password, changing 31 energy, conserving 9 erased drive, configuring 40 erased drive, formatting 41 erasing a drive 40
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features, of Seagate Manager software 5 file extensions 23 file system 11 file types, synchronizing 23 files, overwriting older versions 28
folders
Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive
43
FreeAgent Desk™ User Guide - Page 44
... 21 free space 11
FreeAgent device
managing 8 software for 5 FreeAgent Drive Light 7
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hint, for password 37, 38, 39
historical versions of files, restoring 19
I icon, Seagate Manager 5
colors of 5 in taskbar 5 restoring to taskbar 6 K KeyErase 40
L LED 7 LED control 11
light
FreeAgent drive light 7 light, on FreeAgent drive 7 M manual backups 18
My Drives window
in Manager 8 power setting...
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