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Seagate Dashboard User Manual
Seagate Dashboard 

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Backing Up and Sharing Your Social Media

The photos and videos on your social networks, such as Facebook and Flickr, are important to you. Seagate Dashboard protects this media by backing it up to your storage drive. The Dashboard is also a convenient way to upload photos and videos from your computer to your social network.

  Note: Your drive might not support this feature. For more information, visit Seagate Dashboard Support.

Save Media from Your Social Network

  1. On the Home page, click Social.
  2. Click Save.
  3. Click the box of the social network you want to back up.
    If necessary, sign in and then click the box again to activate the backup.
  4. To have the Dashboard automatically back up your media, select Auto Save below the social network box.

The Seagate Dashboard copies your media files to the My Online Documents folder on the drive. If you have Auto Save checked, the Dashboard scans your social network every hour checking for new photos and videos and saves them to your drive.

Share Media on Your Social Network

Share your pictures and videos with friends and family on your favorite social network by up-loading them from your computer through the Dashboard.

  1. On the Home page, click Social.
  2. Click Share.
  3. Click the box of the social network you want to upload media to.
    If necessary, sign in and then click the box again to continue.
  4. Select the photos and videos you want to share, and then click .
  5. Select a location for the media on your social network, and then click .

The Dashboard begins uploading the files to your social network.

Sign Out of a Social Network

  1. On the Home page, click Social.
  2. Click Share or Save.
  3. If a share or save is running for the social network, wait for the process to end, pause it, or cancel it
  4. Move the cursor to the upper-right corner of the network box and click the icon that appears.

Seagate Dashboard signs you out of the network.