Flash Back Users Guide

Aladdin FlashBack™ User’s Guide February 1998 Aladdin Systems, Inc. 165 Westridge Drive Watsonville, California 95076 Creators: Eric Soldan, Tantek Çelik Engineers: Eric Soldan, Tantek Çelik, Ryoji Watanabe, Jorge Gustavson Product Manager: Peter Thomas Test Lead: Jody Clifton, Walt Darson Support Lead: Peter Tempel Documentation: Christina Hembree Press and Public Relations: Jennifer Lyng, Nicole Rowland Marketing: Brad Peppard Sales: Mark Leitch Agency: After Hours Artist: Bert Monroy Aladdin FlashBack and the Aladdin Logo are trademarks of Aladdin Systems, Inc. Aladdin FlashBack copyright © 1997 - 1998, portions © 1996 - 1997 6prime corporation. All other product names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Product Registration Number _______________________________ Table of Contents 1 Introduction Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 How to Use This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Contacting Aladdin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Comments and Suggestions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Getting Started Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hard Disk Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Mac OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 Working with FlashBack First Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Auto-launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 File Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Adding Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Removing Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Now What? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Accessing Revisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Using Drag and Drop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Double-Clicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Using the File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Status Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 …