The Best Mac External Drive Advice From The MacTakeAwayData Website.
You can’t backup your iPhone or iPad to your Mac. And you don’t know why. But it’s a real pain. Because your iCloud Storage is full. And you want to keep a local to you backups on your Mac, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. In this article you’ll get some explanations why. And what you…
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Every Mac user out there has turned their Mac computer. Or MacBook off and forgot their WD My Passport drive was still plugged in. It’s really easy to do and most of the time you didn’t even realize it. And that meant your Mac hard drive didn’t get ejected properly. In most cases it wouldn’t…
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You just plugged in your WD My Passport drive to transfer some files over to your Mac. The problem is that it doesn’t show up on your mac. And now you’ve no access to your files, photos, videos, music. Anything on that external hard drive. All your precious data is on a drive that is…
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Plugging in your WD My Passport drive into your MacBook. Or desktop Mac computer and seeing a steady blinking light is normal. The LED on the disk drive blinks to tell you that your drive’s connected to your Mac. And that there’s power supply to your drive. That’s all well and good and perfectly normal….
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You copied your files onto your My Passport drive as your backup. Just in case. And now you want to view those files. So, you can check and confirm that they are safe on your drive. Or get those files back. When you’re new to using an external hard drive. Or you’ve not used your…
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Many Mac, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air owners use a WD My Passport to expand their Mac’s internal storage. But what if your WD external hard drive stops working? And you’re freaking out. Take a breath. Here are some of the more usual reasons why you might be having problems with your external hard drive….
You want to do a Time Machine backup. You’re looking at external drives for your Mac. And wonder what the difference in file formats mean? One manufacturer says their drive is NTFS formatted. While another one claims theirs is ExFAT formatted. And yet another says it’s for Mac. But which format should you get if…
As the cost per GB of hard drive space falls. It becomes practical to buy a larger external hard drive and use it for several purposes. And that is exactly what partitioning up – splitting using the Mac operating system software allows you to do. Let me teach you in 10 steps how to partition…
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Whether it’s because you’ve a Windows PC you use at work. And when you’re home it’s easier for you to continue your work on your Mac. The question you’re asking yourself is: Can I use my WD Passport For Mac and Windows PC? The answer is Yes. And in this article you find inspiration to…
Does WD My Passport Work with Time Machine? Yes, Is WD My Passport compatible with Time Machine? Yes, yes. Your Mac can pretty much work with any USB attached external hard drive. And with a little know how and insider knowledge. You can get your WD My Passport drive working well with Time Machine in…