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How To Format WD My Passport For Mac For Time Machine In a few minutes you’ll have it all set up. Skip the next sections and jump down to how to use WD My Passport for Mac with Time Machine.ĭo you have the other type of WD My Passport drive? NTFS formatted? No matter. You just need to point Time Machine to it. Ready to plug straight in and use on a Mac. This drive is already formatted and set up

Western Digital sells a “for Mac” version – WD My Passport For Mac. There are two types of WD My Passport external hard drives you can use on your Mac.

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Be sure your WD My Passport drive is formatted to HFS+ or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system before you start.Ĥ.

Time Machine backs up to and works with a HFS+ (also known as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) formatted drive. The last thing you want is for your Mac to run out of power part way through a backup.ģ. Time Machine checks to make sure your Mac is connected to power before it does a back up. Then aim to get either a 1 TB WD My Passport drive or a 1TB partitionĢ. If everything on your Mac takes up 500 GB It’s safest to calculate that you’ll need And enough space for Time Machine to make your follow on backups over time. Or a partition (section) of a much larger drive large to make your backup to. You’ll need a whole WD My Passport drive. Check before you use your WD My Passport drive as a Timeġ. Before You Use Your WD My Passport For A Time Machine Backup Whether it’s the ‘For Mac’ version or not.Īnd should the worst happen you’d be able It can backup to an external hard drive and that drive can be your

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Including your Mac’s operating system and all the software you have Time Machine will keep a copy of all your documents, photos orĮverything. It is ‘The’ software on a Mac to use to do Your Mac, Your WD My Passport And Time Machine The Non "For Mac" Version Of WD My Passport As Delivered Is NTFS Formatted.

WD My Passport For Mac Not Working With Time Machine.

If You Don't Have Your WD My Passport Drive Plugged In All The Time. When Your WD My Passport Drive Is Full, Time Machine Will Delete The Oldest Backup. Time Machine Backups Are Incremental Forever. Assuming Your WD My Passport Drive Is Connected All The Time To Your Mac.

About Time Machine On The WD My Passport Drive.

When Your Backup Is Finished Eject Your WD My Passport Drive.

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Tell Time Machine To Use Your WD My Passport External Hard Drive.

Setting Up WD My Passport For Time Machine.

Look At The Top Of The Disk Utility Screen And Click On Erase. Select Your WD My Passport External Drive. Your Mac May At This Stage Give You A Message.

How To Format WD My Passport For Mac For Time Machine.

Before You Use Your WD My Passport For A Time Machine Backup.

Your Mac, Your WD My Passport And Time Machine.

As a last resort I may have to invest in a Time Capsule which will always be compatible with a Mac. Or is it Apple’s fault? I wonder how many Apple users use WD external hard drives for Time Machine? Good thing I use a separate Cloud storage backup.

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It’s now several hours later and have heard nothing. What a crock! I can’t conceive of WD, a giant in the storage industry, not having a driver to backup the latest Apple OS. Eventually I had to leave a call-back number. Sadly, I waited on hold a long time then got disconnected! I had to call back yet again and work my way up to the 2nd tier and waited on hold again. I worked my way up to 2nd tier support level in order to talk to a more tech-savvy person. No help there. I finally was told that El Capitan is not supported by my WD drive, therefore this is an issue for Apple and not their problem. I tried everything, incl running their utilities, downloading new firmware and calling WD support. I have a WD My Passport For Mac external hard drive that worked fine, then I upgraded my OSX to El Capitan.