Passport Ultra Beginner's Questions

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I just got an WD Ultra 1TB External Hard drive and I have a question about how it’s backup works with WD Smartware. The thing is I’ve never used an external hard drive before. I understand that it backups everything in the categorizes and each time I run the backup, it makes new copies of the files to be backed up. And the manual says “existing files changed in anyway.” So, I have a few basic questions

1)What I’m wondering is what happens if it backs up a file onto my WD Ultra 1TB External Hard drive from my PC and then I delete that file from my PC? 

  1. Would it keep the file on the external hard drive or would it be be deleted with the next backup? And what happens if I change a file name? Would WD Smartware recognize it or treat it as a new file?
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  1. The file will stay on the backup. WD Smartware and WD Backup are both backup solutions, not sync software. They will not delete anything from their backups (that being one of the main points, so you can recover files that have been lost, deleted or moved).

  2. It will not recognise it as the same file, but will treat it as a new file and will back it up under the new name.