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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 1 Seagate Manager User Guide For Use W ith Y our FreeAgent TM Drive[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 2 Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Your FreeAgent™ Drive Revision 1 © 2008 Seagate Technology LL C. All rights reserved. Seagate , Seagate Technology, the Wave logo, and FreeAg ent are trademarks or registered tra demarks of Seagate Technology LLC, or one of its affiliates. [...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 3 Contents Contents Getting Started ............. ............ .............. .............. .............. .............. ........... .............. .... 5 Using the Seagate Status Icon .............. ............. ................ ........... 5 Restoring the S eagate Status Icon ...[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 4 Contents Synchronizing Folders ........................ .............. ........... .............. .............. ............. 21 Using Simple Sync ......................... ............. ................ ............. ......... 22 Using Custom Sync ....... ................ ........[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 5 Getting Started Using the Seagate Status Icon Getting Star ted The Seagate Manager software, included with your Fre eAgent TM drive, adds a powerful set of tools to your drive: • Backup and restore fe atures to e nable you t o protec t your data . • Sync, to synchronize one or m[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 6 Getting Started Using the Seagate Status Icon Step 2: To display the Seagate Status menu, click the taskbar icon: Step 3: Select the featur e you wa nt to access or select Exit to close the menu. Restoring the Seagate Status Icon If you exit from the Seagate Status menu, the Seagate[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 7 Getting Started FreeAgent Drive Light FreeAgent Drive Light The light on your FreeAg ent drive fla shes to indic ate various drive states . The followin g information applies to all FreeAg ent drives. See “Adjust LED Control” on page 11for inform ation about controlling t he lig[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 8 Managing Y our Drives Usi ng the My Drives Window Managing Y our Drives The My Drives window pro vides a centr al point from which to ma nage your Seagate Free Agent device. This is the default window that appears when you open Seagate Manager . You can also get to the My Drives win[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 9 Managing Y our Drives Settings • To get more information about the selected drive, click the Drive Info button. For more information, see “ Drive Info” on page 11. Any time you need help, you can click the Seagate Man ager help icon. If you are not ab le to find the answer to [...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 10 Managing Y our Drives Settings Step 4: Click Apply to save the power setting. The Adjust Power Setting window confirms that the power settin g for your drive has been changed. Step 5: Click OK to return to the My Drives window. Testing Y our Drive Test your drive to check the hea l[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 11 Managing Y our Drives Drive Info If new software is available, you can down load it from this window. To find out more information abou t the new software, click More In fo . Adjust LED Control The LED Contro l feature allows yo u to control the ligh ts on your drive. Your drive li[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 12 Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files Backup Features Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files With Seagate Manager, you can back up valuable files to your FreeAg ent drive. Each file you choose to back up from your computer is copied to your drive. If you ever lose one of t[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 13 Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files Creating a Backup Plan • Back up your files to an encrypted folder After the initial backup, Seagate Manager backs up ch anged files in designated folders according to a schedule you set, or when you click Back Up Now in the Backup win d[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 14 Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files Creating a Backup Plan A Simple Backu p Confirmation window conf irms that you’ve selected Simple Backup and asks you to name this Backup Plan. Step 5: Enter a name for your Backup Plan and click OK . Scheduled backup is turned on. The B[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 15 Backing Up and Restoring Folders and Files Creating a Backup Plan Step 7: Click Next . The Backup Sc hedule window opens. Step 8: Select the days and time you want to back up your folders. You have the option of backing up your files to an encrypted folder. Note: If you do not wish[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 16 Backing Up and Restoring Folder s and Files Managing Backup Settings The Backup Drive Rotation window opens. Step 11: Select the Backup Plan you want to use with your second drive. Step 12: Click OK . The Backup window opens, displa ying the plan you sele cted as the Active Plan an[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 17 Backing Up and Restoring Folder s and Files Managing Backup Settings Note: If you previously had encryption enabled, it remains enabled (displaying a checkmark). You cannot edit the encryption settings for you r backup. The only way to enable or disable encryption f or a backup is [...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 18 Backing Up and Restoring Folder s and Files Managing Backup Settings • because the computer is off, it automatica lly runs the next time the computer is booted. • because th e drive is no t connected , it automa tically runs th e next time the drive is connected. T urning Off S[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 19 Backing Up and Restoring Folder s and Files Managing Backup Settings Restoring Files When you back up the files stored in selected folder s, Seagate Manager can save up to te n (10) previous, or historical, versions o f each re vised file stored on your drive. You can restor e a sa[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 20 Backing Up and Restoring Folder s and Files Managing Backup Settings The Seagate Backup folder on your drive is displayed . Step 5: Browse to the desired file and dr ag it to the location where you wan t it restored.[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 21 Synchronizing Folders Synchronizing Folders With Sync, you can easily keep im portant files up to date in mu ltiple locations. You select one or more folders on your compu ter to synchronize. Whenever any files ch ange or are added inside your folder(s), they are automatically copi[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 22 Synchronizing Folders Using Simple Sync Using Simple Sync Simple Sync is pre-configured to automa tically sync all file types in your XP My Documents folder or Vista Personal Folde r . Newer file versions always overwrite older versions. To select Simple Sync: Step 1: Click My Driv[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 23 Synchronizing Folders Using Custom Sync — Music: MPG, AIFF, WAV, RA, WMA,... — Videos: AVI, MO V, MPEG, QT, RM, W MV,... — Documents: DOC, XLS, RTF, TXT, PDF, PPT,... • Custom Custom selection allows you to choose the specific file typ e (by specifying that file’s extensi[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 24 Synchronizing Folders Completing the Sync Using Sync Encryption You can automatically encrypt synchronized file s to keep the m secure as y ou synchr onize them between computers. Your Sync Encryption passwor d is the same as your Encryption password since all encrypted folders are[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 25 Synchronizing Folders Editing Sync Settings (c) If you’ve synchronized both your XP My Documents folder (or V ista Personal Folder) and other folder s, both windows open. Step 3: In each window, select the location at w hich to store the synchronized f olders on this computer and[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 26 Synchronizing Folders Using Automatic Sync Deleting Sync Settings To delete all your Sync settings and create a new set: Step 1: Click My Drive s in the Command panel. Step 2: Select your drive. Step 3: Click Sync in the Command panel. The Sync window opens. Step 4: Click Delete Sy[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 27 Synchronizing Folders Using the Sync Preview Window — OR — • Select Sync Now from the Seagate Status menu to Sync on ALL connected drives: The Sync Preview window opens. Listed are the fi les scheduled to be overwritten. If you do NOT want to overwrite an older file version w[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 28 Synchronizing Folders Using the Sync Preview Window Using Automatic Overwrite When Automatic Overwrite is on, old er file vers ions are always repla ced with newer versions. When Automatic Overwrite is off, the Seag ate Ma nager displays the Sync Preview window to allow you to deci[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 29 Managing Security Creating an Encryption Folder Managing Security The Encryption feature pr ovides encryption of multiple fi les and folders in one location, the Encryption folder. After you create and se t a password for the Encryption folde r, you can drag and drop files and fold[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 30 Managing Security Creating an Encryption Folder The Security window opens. Step 4: Click Encryption in the Security window. The Encryption Password window opens. Step 5: Enter and re-enter a password that will you will use to open your Encryption folder. Your passwor d must contain[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 31 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder Step 8: Delete the original, unencr ypted versions of the files and folders from your computer. Step 9: When you are finished encrypting files, close the Encryption folder. Note: Your encrypted files and fold ers will not be completel[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 32 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder Step 6: Enter your curren t Encryption password and click Next . The second Chang e Encryption Password window op ens. Step 7: Enter and re-enter a new password and click Change . A Change Encryption Password confirmation window opens[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 33 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder Opening an Encryption folder To open an Encryption folder , Step 1: Click My Drive s in the Command panel. Step 2: Select your drive. Step 3: Click Security in the Command panel. The Security window opens. Step 4: Click Encryption in [...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 34 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder A Select Destina tion Directory window opens. Step 2: Select a destinatio n and click Decrypt . Decrypted copies of the items are placed in the selected locatio n. The encrypted version s remain in the Encryptio n folder. To r emove t[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 35 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder A Delete warning window opens, asking you to confirm your intention to delete the files. Step 2: Click Yes . The selected items are deleted fro m the Encryption folder. Note: Files can also be dragged and drop ped into the Recycle Bin[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 36 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder • Set, change, or delete a password hint • Erase your drive Unlocking Y our Drive Your Seagate Secu re drive locks auto matically each time you disconnect it from a computer. You can unlock it in either the Seagate Manage r applic[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 37 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder You can ask for your pa ssword hint to help you remember your passwo rd, as long as you originally created a pa ssword hint. If you still can't remember your password, the only way to re gain access to your Seagate Secure drive i[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 38 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder • The Unlock Drive window: (a) Click Hint in the Unloc k Drive window. If no password hint has been set, the Password Hint Not Set window opens. (b) Cli ck Set Password Hint . • The Change Password window: (a) Set a new password i[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 39 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder Step 8: Enter a hint to help you recall your password if you forget it. Step 9: Enter the 25 -character identificati on code print ed on the drive label. Step 10: Click Set . A message confirms that your pass word hint has been set su[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 40 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder Step 7: Click Done to return to the Unlock window and enter your password. If you still cannot remember your passw ord after retrieving your password hint, you must erase your Seagate Secure dr ive in order to continue to use the driv[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 41 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder To configure th e drive: Step 1: Enter the 25 -character identificati on code print ed on the drive label. Step 2: Enter and confirm a new drive password. The password must contain betwee n 6 and 32 characters. Step 3: Click Set . A m[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 42 Managing Security Managing an Encryption Folder The Seagate Secure drive is lab eled “Unallocated” because it’s no t properly formatted. Step 3: Right-click anywhere in the “Unallocated ” bar and select New Partition... The New Partitio n Wizard opens automaticall y. Step[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 43 Index Index A automatic overwrite 28 automatic s ync 26 B backup custom 13 simple 13 backup features, in Seagate Manage r 12 backup log 18 backup pl ans about 13 custom 14 deleting 17 scheduling 17 simple 13 with drive rotation 13 , 15 backup sett ings editing 16 managing 16 backup[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 44 Index synchronizing folders, synchronizing 21 free space 11 FreeAgent device managing 8 software for 5 FreeAgent Drive Light 7 H hint, for pa ssword 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 K[...]

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    Seagate Manager User Guide for Use With Y our FreeAgent™ Drive 45 Index sync preview windo w 27 sync settings editing 25 synchronizing about 21 folders 21 see also sync T testing drives 10 turning off automatic sync 26 U updating software 10 V volumes 11[...]