Driver For Mac Os X 10.6 Wd My Passport

I'm looking at a 1TB western digital My Passport. I'm unsure if it'll work with my MBP/iMac. Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner backups of Mac internal hard drive. To Read/Write HFS+ from Windows. Maximum volume size: 8EiB; exFAT (FAT64) Supported in Mac OS X only in 10.6.5 or later. ExFAT partitions created with OS X 10.6.5. Mar 26, 2018 - I have recently bought a “My Passport” External HD. And, I am a Mac User. Running Mac OS X 10.6.8. Where and with working to reformat.

Anyone using both a Mac and a Western Digital external hard drive? In November a report was made of a known issue between Mac’s OS X Mavericks and Western Digital external drives.

The WD drives were losing data when interacting with Mavericks. The customer service from WD has been HORRIBLE. They have provided solutions that have failed, and tons of message boards of questions with no viable solution (calling them is no better service - the representatives have not been helpful thus far, and on top of that were sarcastic and rude AND told me that this issue comes out of my free tech support period when it is CLEARLY a WD-wide issue). WD’s first attempt was an upgrade to their firmware WD_Drive_Manager_Installer_3_1_0_14 the upgrade remains named as the old version number (what?).

After uninstalling and reinstalling I could see that the version WD_Drive_Manager_Installer_3_1_0_14, still was actually named the older version (v2.3.1). Actually now if you go to the site to download the new version - it is no longer even a functional link just text.

Their second attempt was to download “SmartWare” which eliminated most functions to the drive (again, what?). I have a MyBook II Smartware doesn’t show anything about my RAID drives. The user manual for SmartWare confirmed the lack of existence of any RAID management software function. I removed it.

At this point I have avoided upgrading to Mavericks simply to safeguard my 2TB of date on my external hard drive. Anyone else using both Mac and WD?

Anyone have a solution? I need to upgrade my MAC at some point here. I can keep the WD manager uninstalled, but: a) I shouldn’t have to do that, and b) How in the world am I supposed to manage my RAID drive with no utility for it? Thanks to anyone who can be helpful. What is the current status of WD Smartware for those who have upgraded to Mavericks? I have 4 My Passport Studio 500 GB external hard drives that I use Smartware to decrypt.

I just upgraded from OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) to 10.9.3 (Mavericks). I have not yet updated to the latest version of Smartware, and I have not tried to access the drives since updating to Mavericks, from fear of losing data based on the past reports of problems. Have the problems been sorted out with the most recent version of Smartware, such that it will be safe to try to access the drives now? Or should I continue to wait? Tried it myself, says that it cannot connect to server. Did WD just stop updating this problem? If so, my two WD hard drives are now door stops.

I can even get them to come up on one of my WIndows XP machines now, let alone all of my Macs with Mavericks. (I shouldn’t of updated, what an idiot I was) So in the future, I will not be purchasing any more WD products because I cannot find or get an answer from these guys about this. Simple as that. I do not have the time to play around with this issue and time is money. I might as well just get a large capacity thumdrive and go that route. God I hate computers sometimes, but it is part of my graphics design business. Sorry about that.

Thank you so far, but at the moment I’m really frustrated. I tried it on OS X and on Windows 7 but in both cases I get the message that I have to remove the password protection first. Then I can configure the disk.

But that’s exactly what I want to do! Remove the password protection permanently. Of course I did the unlocking before running the VCD manager. So let me summarize waht I did until now: • Tried to install smart ware on my mac -> did not work • Installed smart ware on my windows PC -> did work, but windows did not see my drive because it is formated for mac • Tried to perform a firmware update -> did not work on mac or PC but my drive has the latest FW anyway, probably no problem • Tried to remove the password protection with VCD manager on mac and windows -> VCD manager does not work with the drive until password protection is removed from my passport So with the latest hint we have a kind of dead lock. Need to run the VCD manager to remove the password but VCD manager does not work until password protection is removed???