The Clickfree Transformer, developed by Storage Appliance Corporation turns any USB hard drive, iPod, or iPhone into a simple automatic backup solution for your computer. It allows you to scoot songs from your iPhone to any desktop computer – even if your iPhone is Mac-formatted and the destination computer is a PC.
The whole setup process is quite simple: in the case of the Transformer Cable you first have to hook up a USB hard-drive, then you plug either of them into a spare USB port. After the typical minute or so as the drive is recognized (which only happens the first time), the Clickfree auto-backup wizard springs to life. From here you can allow the software to collate the common files – documents, emails, images, music, etc. – or add in specific folders of which you’d prefer the entire contents to be saved. There’s no easy way to create a full drive mirror; the Clickfree is more about personal data than it is full system restores.
Once you’ve selected – or let the app select – the targets, Clickfree begins indexing the files. As with installation, the first time takes the longest, as your whole hard-drive is scanned for relevant data. This is more time-consuming than, say, focusing on just what’s in the Vista “Documents” folder, say (or the equivalent in another OS), but it’s also more thorough, scraping up personal files hidden elsewhere on the drive that may have been scattered by errant software.
Clickfree Transformer for iPhone, iPad and iPod
After indexing the copying begins, and how long this takes depends on the number of files Clickfree has found and the speed of the hard-drive. In the case of the HD325 that’s a 5,400rpm 2.5-inch model with 8MB cache; with the Transformer Cable it depends on what you have to hand. Subsequent backups – triggered by plugging the HD325 or Transformer Cable-equipped USB drive back into the computer – are much faster, as Clickfree only copies across new or altered data. Old versions of files are preserved, and if you delete one from your computer it’s not automatically deleted from the Clickfree drive; that takes up more space, yes, but it’s very useful if you later realize you were too quick to empty the Recycle Bin.
Restoring data is similarly straightforward. Triggered either from the Clickfree backup app or accessing the drive directly through the Explorer window (or equivalent), you can choose to restore individual files, browse through them (with an integrated picture viewer and media app) or restore the whole lot. Rather than being slotted back into the directories they came from, Clickfree puts all data into a single Restored Files directory; that makes it easy to sift through, but does leave you with the chore of reorganizing afterward.
Key Features:
- Turn any USB Hard Drive into the Clickfree Automatic Backup Solution, using available free space on the drive.
- Turn any iPod or iPhone into the Clickfree Automatic Backup Solution, using available free space
- Import Music and Play lists from your iPod/iPhone to any computer – great for upgrading to a new PC or Mac
- Use with multiple Hard Drives, iPods, and iPhones – each an independent backup.
- Clickfree Award Winning Smart Backup Technology automatically backs up hundreds of file types, organizes them, and makes it easy to restore or transfer to new computers, even when upgrading Windows operating systems. You can also transfer files easily from PC to Mac.
- Backs up Multiple Computers
Clickfree Transformer works with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.5 or later with Intel processor.
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