Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Basics
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Basics
HOW DOES CLICKFREE WORK?
All you need to do to keep your projects, photos, videos, music etc. safe is to put the
Clickfree DVD Backup into the DVD drive in your computer and let it work! No need to
install software or to configure anything. Your computer knows when the Clickfree DVD
has been inserted, and it runs the program automatically each time. You can back up as
many computers as you like with the Clickfree DVD Backup. However, each DVD can hold
backed-up files from only one computer.
When Clickfree has finished backing up your computer, just eject the DVD and store it in a
safe place. We recommend that you do not leave the Clickfree DVD in your DVD drive:
your content is safer if your DVD Backup is kept separately from the computers it has
backed up.
If your data is lost for any reason (hard disk crash, laptop lost or stolen, content
accidentally deleted), you’ll be really happy that you bought and used Clickfree. Your
backed-up content is safe on your Clickfree backup, waiting to be restored when you have
a working computer again.
A Clickfree backup is also ideal for transferring your content from an old computer to a
new one.Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, the program may not run by itself – it may
need a little help. If this happens to you, don’t worry – it’s easy to get things going. We’ll
show you how a little later. For details, see “What if Clickfree doesn’t start up
automatically?” on page 12.
WHAT GETS BACKED UP?
CLICKFREE BACKS UP CONTENT
At Clickfree we want to protect our customers from losing things that are irreplaceable.
That’s why Clickfree finds and backs up all of the content from wherever it is on your
computer – according to which DVD Backup you use – Office, Music, Photo.
When it runs automatically, Clickfree searches your computer for all of the content that
you have either created or placed in your computer. To see a list of the categories of content
that Clickfree backs up automatically, see “What content categories does Clickfree back
up?” on page 8. Most likely, this means that it will back up everything that matters to you
right out of the box without you having to do anything but insert the DVD.
Unless you explicitly ask it to do so (and only for Office backup), Clickfree does not back
up the programs or the operating system. This means that your backup won’t need nearly
as much space as the size of your computer’s hard drive since your content may only take
up a small portion of your hard drive’s capacity, and we only look for the content.
WHAT CONTENT CATEGORIES DOES CLICKFREE BACK UP?
Depending on which DVD Backup you are using, Clickfree backs up content in these
categories:
