WD My Book for Mac 2TB and OS X Yosemite. WD External Drives. External Drives for Mac. I recently had a WD 3TB hard Drive replaced - TWICE because the first failed after two weeks and the second didn’t work at all! Until Yosemite ALL my WD Passport drives and Seagate Drives (whether solo powered or external powered) darned well worked.
My external hard drive for my MAC (my passport essential 3200bmv) was stolen and later recovered by the police. The criminal erased all of my data and used it on his own computer for his files on a PC (which the police erased before giving it back to me). But now I'm not able to save any of my MAC files on it. I can read whats left on the drive as police only erased the criminals pics etc. It looks as though he might have reformatted it to work with his PC??
I've googled this and can't find answers to figure out how to fix this and format it back to accept my MAC files. Help please!!!
Hi All, After installing Yosemite I noticed that I can no longer access My Book for Mac. I didnt give it much thought as it is still doing the hourly updates but when I go into Time Machine and try to pull up a date it doesnt move. I contacted WD yesterday and they say it is a issue with Apples Time Machine. I then contacted Apple Care and explained what was going on and they said WD needs to issue a patch. I do recall having a similar issue when Mac went to Mavericks.
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Does anyone on here have an idea of what is actually going on? Thanks in advance for any assistance. I have had a similar issue. I recently had a WD 3TB hard Drive replaced - TWICE because the first failed after two weeks and the second didn’t work at all! This was the model with both FireWire and USB. I received a replacement Drive which is the newer 3TB USB model.
Unfortunately, it has compatability issues with Yosemite 10.10.1. I cannot set up the Drive Settings, or use/find Backup or Retrieve in the WD Smartware. Smartware does not seem to recognise this Drive on Yosemite. I am awaiting a response from Western Digital who have thus far been very helpful on a personal one to one basis. Hopefully it can be resolved soon! The big white charging elephant is that this is something that APPLE has done.
Until Yosemite ALL my WD Passport drives and Seagate Drives (whether solo powered or external powered) darned well worked. Now, WD - one of the largest providers of hard drives in the UK (if not the world) cannot seem to get drives recognised. It is laughable - seriously. Are Apple now looking to sell portable hard drives??? No, so why won’t they read? Yosemite has been out a couple of months now - and how long was the beta program?? WD and Apple get your acts together.
Some help to you - USB hubs sometimes allow you to get tyour drives read - however not all hubs are the same. Good luck my fellow sufferers - I can sing the misery song too - Yosemite wiped my data - thank you Apple.