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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 ...15 Managing Backup Settings 16 Editing Backup Settings 16 Deleting a Backup Plan 17 Using Scheduled Backup 17 Backing Up Manually 18 Viewing the Backup Log 18 Restoring Files 19 Restoring an Historical Version 19 Restoring Most Recent Version 19 Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 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 ...15 Managing Backup Settings 16 Editing Backup Settings 16 Deleting a Backup Plan 17 Using Scheduled Backup 17 Backing Up Manually 18 Viewing the Backup Log 18 Restoring Files 19 Restoring an Historical Version 19 Restoring Most Recent Version 19 Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 3
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... the drive you can also manually check to see if an update is displayed with instructions to date or not. Updating Your Software The Software Update feature automatically informs you whether your software is selected by default. To check for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 10 Seagate Manager User Guide for software... appears to inform you when an update is complete, the results are displayed. The Settings window opens. Check for updates automatically is up to contact Seagate for your drive.
... the drive you can also manually check to see if an update is displayed with instructions to date or not. Updating Your Software The Software Update feature automatically informs you whether your software is selected by default. To check for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 10 Seagate Manager User Guide for software... appears to inform you when an update is complete, the results are displayed. The Settings window opens. Check for updates automatically is up to contact Seagate for your drive.
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... icon in the Taskbar notification area to open or not. OR - To launch a manual backup to your system backups. OR - • Select Back Up Now from the Seagate Status icon menu: The Seagate Status icon turns yellow and the backup takes place in the Backup window of your drive: ...is connected. Step 2: Click View Backup Log to display the Seagate Status menu. To view the Backup Log for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 18 Viewing the Backup Log The Backup Log is a text-based report of Seagate Manager. - Seagate Manager User Guide for your backup history. Note: The Backup ...
... icon in the Taskbar notification area to open or not. OR - To launch a manual backup to your system backups. OR - • Select Back Up Now from the Seagate Status icon menu: The Seagate Status icon turns yellow and the backup takes place in the Backup window of your drive: ...is connected. Step 2: Click View Backup Log to display the Seagate Status menu. To view the Backup Log for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 18 Viewing the Backup Log The Backup Log is a text-based report of Seagate Manager. - Seagate Manager User Guide for your backup history. Note: The Backup ...
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... overwrite older file versions Custom Sync: Select one or more folders to sync Select file types to include or exclude Select automatic or manual sync Set Sync and Copy & Replace Rules Encrypt synchronized files Note: Make sure all computers participating in multiple locations. Note: Files ... way to move files between computers running XP and those running Vista. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 21 Whenever any files change or are added inside your computer to your FreeAgent drive. You select one or more folders on your folder(s), they are...
... overwrite older file versions Custom Sync: Select one or more folders to sync Select file types to include or exclude Select automatic or manual sync Set Sync and Copy & Replace Rules Encrypt synchronized files Note: Make sure all computers participating in multiple locations. Note: Files ... way to move files between computers running XP and those running Vista. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 21 Whenever any files change or are added inside your computer to your FreeAgent drive. You select one or more folders on your folder(s), they are...
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...that you want to exclude, and click Add to move it to the Include list. Note: You can select Sync Encryption. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 23 Music: MPG, AIFF, WAV, RA, WMA,... - Select Exclude these file types. 4. Always replace ...older file versions with newer versions - If you later decide you want to the right of Sync. To exclude a specific file type from synchronization: 1. Sync manually using ...
...that you want to exclude, and click Add to move it to the Include list. Note: You can select Sync Encryption. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 23 Music: MPG, AIFF, WAV, RA, WMA,... - Select Exclude these file types. 4. Always replace ...older file versions with newer versions - If you later decide you want to the right of Sync. To exclude a specific file type from synchronization: 1. Sync manually using ...
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...opens. Step 4: In the Sync window, click the Automatic Sync Off button. Step 4: Click Delete Sync Settings. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 26 Synchronizing Folders Using Automatic Sync Deleting Sync Settings To delete all your Sync settings and create a...3: Click Sync in synchronized folders and automatically synchronizes revised versions by overwriting older versions with newer versions. Step 5: To sync manually when Automatic Sync is turned on your drive, you can turn off Automatic Sync and control when files are synchronized rather than ...
...opens. Step 4: In the Sync window, click the Automatic Sync Off button. Step 4: Click Delete Sync Settings. Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 26 Synchronizing Folders Using Automatic Sync Deleting Sync Settings To delete all your Sync settings and create a...3: Click Sync in synchronized folders and automatically synchronizes revised versions by overwriting older versions with newer versions. Step 5: To sync manually when Automatic Sync is turned on your drive, you can turn off Automatic Sync and control when files are synchronized rather than ...
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... Tools to Format an Erased Seagate Secure Drive If your Seagate Secure drive, you 've just erased everything on your Seagate Secure drive cannot be created. To use Administrative Tools to manually create a partition: Step 1: Go to Start > Run to use the Seagate Secure drive. A message confirms...must use the Administrative Tools of the Windows operating system to manually create a partition so you can take up to a full minute for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 41 After a short wait, the Format Seagate Drive window opens. Step 2: Type diskmgmt.msc and click ...
... Tools to Format an Erased Seagate Secure Drive If your Seagate Secure drive, you 've just erased everything on your Seagate Secure drive cannot be created. To use Administrative Tools to manually create a partition: Step 1: Go to Start > Run to use the Seagate Secure drive. A message confirms...must use the Administrative Tools of the Windows operating system to manually create a partition so you can take up to a full minute for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive 41 After a short wait, the Format Seagate Drive window opens. Step 2: Type diskmgmt.msc and click ...
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..., in Seagate Manager 12 backup log 18 backup plans about 13 custom 14 deleting 17 scheduling 17 simple 13 with drive rotation 13, 15 backup settings editing 16 managing 16 backups about 12 manual 18 scheduled... to more than one 15 displayed in "My Drives" window 8 info 11 managing 8 rotation 15 Seagate Secure 35 testing 10 unlocking 36 E editing sync settings 25 encryption 29 about 29 folder 29 of ...40 erased drive, formatting 41 erasing a drive 40 F features, of Seagate Manager software 5 file extensions 23 file system 11 file types, synchronizing 23 files, overwriting older versions 28 folders...
..., in Seagate Manager 12 backup log 18 backup plans about 13 custom 14 deleting 17 scheduling 17 simple 13 with drive rotation 13, 15 backup settings editing 16 managing 16 backups about 12 manual 18 scheduled... to more than one 15 displayed in "My Drives" window 8 info 11 managing 8 rotation 15 Seagate Secure 35 testing 10 unlocking 36 E editing sync settings 25 encryption 29 about 29 folder 29 of ...40 erased drive, formatting 41 erasing a drive 40 F features, of Seagate Manager software 5 file extensions 23 file system 11 file types, synchronizing 23 files, overwriting older versions 28 folders...
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... Light 7 H 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 9 N nging 38 O overwriting automatically 28 P password changing...
... Light 7 H 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 9 N nging 38 O overwriting automatically 28 P password changing...
