Hi, I recently bought a WD Passport Essential to back up my Macbook. When I plugged in the WD Passport, my Mac asked if I want to use this storage device for my Time Machine.

Need to set up my passport for mac. This is an IMAC and I am running macOS Sierra version 10.12.6. Nothing - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist. ON my iMac, Safari suddenly will not start up. Last night I. I just brought home a new My Passport for Mac and plugged it in. I want to use it to back up with Time Machine. How do i make my WD Passport Work on Both Windows and Mac. WD External Drives. WD Portable Drives. Al_Rashoud 2011-05-18 07:08:03 UTC #1. Before I use my WD external drive (Passport Essential 250 GB) I saw that the file format on my PC is NTFS based.

Should I use the WD Passport as the Time Machine storage device or use the WD Passport software to run back-ups? If I use it for my Time Machine, will I be able to access my files on other machines? Is it possible to have files stored on the WD Passport, such as photos, but not have those files on my Macbook. If I am using the Passport for back-ups? Thank you so much! I apologize if this is the wrong area. I just joined the group and feel a little overwhelmed by all the info.

Is there fortnite for mac. While it's your choice as to whether you'd like to do this or not, I'd definitely recommend doing it. I love knowing that if I accidentally delete a file, I can go back in time to see it exactly how it was. I can even see previous versions of it if I go back further. It's definitely worth it for peace of mind.

Not too sure on this one, I've never had the need to plug in my portable hard drive anywhere but my mac. Yes, while I had my 320GB hard drive I kept 121GB of movies on it, and the other space allotted was used for backups.

Free emulator downloads. TimeMachine will only delete content in the backups.backupdb folder, so you don't have to worry about your stuff being deleted when the disk becomes too full. PROTIP: I'd recommend having a hard drive that's bigger than your computer's hard drive. I have a 500GB hard drive in my MacBook Pro and I use a 1TB drive to back it up daily. I'd use Time Machine over the WD software anyday. In order to get the best of both worlds, I'd do the following: 1. Ignore/do not install the WD Passport software. Using Disk Utility, re-partition the WD drive into two partitions: one at least slightly larger than your Macbook's hard drive, formatted as HFS+; the other formatted as FAT32.

In Time Machine Preferences, indicate the HFS+ partition as the one to be used for Time Machine. This leaves the FAT32 partition for storing other offline files (photos, etc.), and the partition can be recognized by others' Windows PCs for file transferring. Time Machine is designed as a backup solution for a particular Mac, not a file sharing solution between computers. I recommend that the Time Machine partition remain untouched except by Time Machine itself.

Use the other partition for sharing copies of your photo/video/music; it remains unaffected by Time Machine. Here's my setup, as an example: My iMac has a WD MyBook Studio with a 500Gb drive. The WD is partitioned into three: TMachine (200Gb HFS+ for Time Machine backups); ExtraSpace (approx 200Gb HFS+ for additional video storage); WINFAT32 (60 GB for use with Windows XP via Boot Camp). The WINFAT32 partition can be seen by any PC I plug it into, but not the others.