A little more than a year has passed since the post where we explained how to get rid of OS X BeamSync, the cancer that utterly cripples the user experience of those XCode developers who are wise enough to ditch Apple machines and use VMware (and a decent OS such as Windows or Linux) instead: back then it was OS X Yosemite, but El Capitan doesn’t perform any better: as a matter of fact it.

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Connect your Western Digital My Passport drive to Mac computer, and let the OS detect and mount the drive for use. Now, a new hard drive icon will appear on the desktop. On macOS Dock, select Finder. My Passport as a Mac Time Machine Backup Drive. Ideally twice as big to give you room to grow into. Or you can take the total amount of internal disk you have let us say you have a 500 GB internal drive and get a WD My Passport twice as big. A 1 TB drive or a 1 TB partition allocated to Time Machine. Step 1: Open Disk Utility. Step 2: Right click the My Passport for Mac external hard drive from the left sidebar and then click the Mount button. If the above method doesn't work, we should check and verify My Passport for Mac by First Aid. How to connect my passport for mac hard disk. Fix 2: Show my passport for Mac or on desktop. It is also possible that you haven’t enabled Show external drive on desktop or Finder. In this case, first of all, check that option and enable it. Step #1: Launch “Finder”. Step #2: Click on “Preferences”. Step #3: Select the “General” tab.

I’ve never been a Mac fan, but I do have to say that our family does have several Apple products in our home, 2 iPads and an iPhone for the kids and my wife. Whether I like to admit it or not they do make a highly polished quality product. It had been an interest of mine recently to run Mac OS X on my powerhouse PC at home, but I wanted it to run as virtual machine. I raked over some sites that stated it was not possible, I found that rather funny I mean how is it not possible doesn’t Mac run on Intel hardware nowadays anyhow? Then I stumbled on this. It does a good job at showing the basic steps, however it doesn’t explain much along the way, I figured it would be good to break this down and explain it. • Download this (approx.

6 GB), within this file is a file called Yosemite 10.10 Retail VMware.rar, this needs to be extracted to a location of your choice, preferably onto a SSD. This rar file contains VMware prepped OS X files (vmx, vmdk) for use with VMware products. • Install VMware Workstation or VMware Player, I chose the Workstation route since I already had it installed. • Confirm VMware Workstation or VMware Player is installed correctly, and close the program. • Download the latest, at the time of writing it is. • Extract the contents of OS X Unlocker onto your computer. OS X Unlocker essentially patches the installed VMware product so Mac OS X can be installed.

It does this modifying some core VMware system files. • Browse to the folder where you extracted OS X Unlocker and Run the following files As Administrator ( win-install.cmd and win-update-tools.cmd) Note: if something goes wrong or you’d like to restore the original files for your VMware application you can run win-uninstall.cmd. • Run VMware Workstation or VMware Player and select Open a Virtual Machine.

• Select the Mac OS X 10.9.vmx file and select Open. • Go to Edit virtual machine settings.

Either by right clicking on the Mac OS X 10.9 object on the left side panel or via the tabbed window. • You can keep the default resources if you prefer or bump them up, I personally bumped them up to 8 GB and 2 vCPU. The important option here is Version which is on the Options tab. This needs to be set to Mac OS X 10.7. This option is not available by default, the OS X Unlocker we ran earlier has exposed this option.

Rip dvd vith vlc for mac. If for some reason you don’t see this option, look at re-running the OS X Unlocker steps, it needs to be Run as Administrator. • Now power on the Virtual Machine using Power on this virtual machine or by right clicking and going to Power > Start Up Guest. • The machine will boot up and take you through the OS X setup process, it’s very quick and painless. Once complete it’s now time to install the latest VMware Tools onto the newly created OS X VM.