Compatible with Mac? Is this external hardrive compatible with mac?
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Here is the direct link to the article RBW was talking about.http://support.wdc.com/product/kb.asp?lang=enJust type in 287 into the "Knowledge Base" search bar on the right hand side of the page. Only 1 search result should come up and its called..."How to install, partition, and format a WD drive on Windows (7, Vista, XP, 2000) and Mac OSX"The Mac OSX directions are at the bottom, and it works perfectly once you reformat the hard drive.
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Kelly,Go to the Applications folder and scroll down to the bottom where you will find a Utilities folder. Open it. Find the application "Disk Utility" and double click to open. When it is open, find the external hard drive in the list and select it. Click on the Erase tab. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format: popup menu. Give the drive a name. Click on the Erase... button. Wait a few minutes. Quit Disk Utility. You are ready to go.
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What happens if it "fails"? Did I get a bad drive?I made the mistake of setting the security to "overwrite with zeros" it ran for 11 hours then failed.Now erasing with "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" doesn't work.
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Kelly, Go to the Applications folder and scroll down to the bottom where you will find a Utilities folder. Open it. Find the application "Disk Utility" and double click to open. When it is open, find the external hard drive in the list and select it. Click on the Erase tab. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format: popup menu. Give the drive a name. Click on the Erase... button. Wait a few minutes. Quit Disk Utility. You are ready to go.
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Yes--but you will need to use Disk Utility to reformat it. Takes just a couple of minutes.
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I am an idiot- specifically, how do you format this for a Mac? Also, is it fine to do this, or should I buy a specific hard drive already formated or designed for Macs?
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in the paper that comes with the drive it directs you to seesupport.wdc.com --> knowledge base article #287The 2TB version I just bought was pre-formatted for NTFS (which Disk Utility recognized just fine...I reformatted for Mac just for the better file system)
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Can you further explain how to format this for Mac -- and can it be interswitched between a Mac and a PC?
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If you have a PC, you will generally format this drive using the NTFS file system. A Mac can only read NTFS formatted drives, but can not write to them.If you format this drive to FAT32, both PC and Mac will be able to read/write to it.*the limitations of FAT32 however, prevent a single file size being greater than 4Gb
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I am not really a Mac person but the description on Amazon say it is Mac compatible. Here is a direct quote from their page: "Formatted in FAT32 for use on Windows, Mac, and PS3". That would lead me to believe it would be compatible but it might be worth a look at the makers web page just to be sure. Hope that helps some.
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Yes the drive is fully compatible with Mac OS X leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion. Tried it on all platforms because I help friends and they had all those operating systems. Hope ya buy it.
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It is mac compatible, yes. However, it is not optimized for macs. The unit comes with two USB connectors for your mac, which connects it to the drive. Even with both connectors plugged in, some macs will disconnect from the drive while you work. As you can imagine, this is absurdly annoying, but is not a problem unique to this particular drive. A lot of macs have the same problem with USB 3 bus powered drives. The speed difference isn't even that noticeable from usb 2.0, so if you can find one, just get a USB 2 drive and save yourself some grief.
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From what I've read on the clickfree.com website, they are Mac compatible, but I don't know if you need a separate external HD just for macs, and one just for PC's. Then again with Macs you've got Time Machine and Backup built-in, but if you're anything like me, if there is something like this product that I've been waiting to be released, if it will backup just one more file off my macs, I'll buy it in a heart beat! Check out their website, though, it is really informative and they have some products not available on Amazon, i.e. SSD credit card sized back up drives. Hope this helps. -John
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Yes. You will need an enclosure, then connect via usb or thunderbolt, then format the drive Mac OS extended journaled or as need.
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You should be able to access most files that have a common app (Mac and PC) - the challenge will be saving any updates.Typically PC formatted external drives are FAT32, which will convert to the MAC, but not able to be write enabled back.The exception will be music and photos, they should be available for iTunes and iPhoto imports.
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Yes, no problem using with Macbook. Just plug it into a USB port and it becomes another drive in Finder. Then you can move the files off the recorder to your C: drive.
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The drive is supported, it comes formatted in fat32. You can reformat to mac only or exFat if you want. USB 3 is not supported on macs (yet, you'll need a new mac), but the drive works just fine.I have 2, use them both on mac's and pc's with no issues. Great drive, really fast even on usb2.
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As an external drive, it should work with any Mac with a thunderbolt port. I use mine to hold a couple TBs worth of photos for work in Photoshop which is loaded on main hard drive. Performs fine for that. I have never done video work, however, but I think it should be fine.
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I am currently using a 2 TB WD My Book for Mac on OSX 10.9.1. It works flawlessly and am very happy with it. I set it up when I was still using Lion. Then upgraded to Mavericks and had no problem.
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I use it on my Macbook as a time machine drive. I just plugged it in and it backs my machine up without any manual steps. So it can be used as an external without using any of the software that may have been on the drive. I hope this helps
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The first thing you have to do is to make sure that the drive is set to the format your MAC uses. It should work perfectly fine.
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Yes 100% Mac friendly, but you need a software to clone your HDD.I used this item to clone my HDD into an SSD and it worked perfectly without any problem.
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Thank you so much for your response! You also answered my next question as to whether or not it would recognize external HDDs connected to the Mac.Have you experimented connecting external drives to the WD TV Live Plus directly through the USB? If so are you able to transfer files wirelessly from your Mac to the external drive?It's a shame the WD TV Live Plus doesn't have built in wireless like the Apple TV.
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Hi, I actually when I bought it I did not check its Mac supported, whereas I wanted to use it on Windows and Linux.So I repartitioned it with NTFS to use on these OSes. But it had HSpace partition, so it is compatible with all Macs
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I honestly cant say, the packaging said it was compatible with MAC, however it is not......