Installing ElephantDrive on Windows 7

ElephantDrive analyzed my documents and suggested what to back up.  I chose the items that I was most concerned with, my photos, and had enough headroom to also back up music, word processing documents, PowerPoints, etc.

Click next.

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Click next again and the backups will start.  You are shown the following screen next:

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This is the ElephantDrive dashboard.  Click on Manage Backups to see the status of your backups.

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Click on Done to return to the dashboard and then click on View Activity to view the progress of backups.

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When ElephantDrive is installed, it puts an icon in your application tray and leverages Windows 7 notifications.  When it completes a backup, this is the message that is displayed:

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Back at the dashboard, clicking on Your Vault shows all of your files.  Here is part of my documents backup:

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