will this unit show up as a USB storage unit under Mac OS X? will this unit show up as a USB storage unit under Mac OS X?
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Just got one and it works great, but no, it doesn't show up in Mac OS X as a drive. I'm using 10.4.6 and can't see it in the finder, disk utility, or in /Volumes/. Bummer.
510903
I wish I could say I knew but I don't. That might be a good question to ask the company directly... I leave the MacBook plugged in as the default and working as our backup drive so I leave both on to backup in the background. Sorry I can't help more than that.
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I guess I can't really answer this as I don't have a MAC. However, I'd think that if you can use any flash drive off the shelf for your MAC, this one would work as well.
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It works with the Mac OS right out of the box. It also can be reformatted via Disk Utility.
508482
You should have no problem. My mac has USB 2.0 and this drive supports USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 natively. The only difference you will see is the data transfer speed, and honestly, even with USB 2.0 interface, the data transfer is pretty fast.
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dont buy this for mac. my imac 2013 everytime i leave it plug in while booting up. if any usb or sd card is plug in this thing it will kill the usb stick or memory card. it happen for me 3x. lost 2 cf card and 2 usb stick with this thing. a problems for mac user.
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I know they don't officially support Macs but if i plugged it in using the usb cable would it recognize it or no. It's kind of a deal breaker for me so i was wondering if anyone had any info.Thanks!
135685
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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The unit came with a mini disk all I did was burn a copy of the disk, on another computer.And it worked fine. Please dont try to put the mini disk in to Mac disk drive, it may never come out
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I haven't been able to get it to work with OS X El Capitan 10.11.2. It or the micro sd card doesn't show up on the desk top and I've set it up, , formatted the micro sd card, calibrated it, scanned and it doesn't seem to work worth a diddley. I not to happy about wasting $52 as it stands. Anybody else with a Mac have this problem?
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The way I see it, if you can plug a flash drive into your Mac, and you can use it, then there is no reason why the Docking station won't work as well. Your MAC will just see it as another drive, providing you have a hard drive inserted...
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Yes it will. It comes formatted as NTFS which is Windows only but it is very simple to reformat it to FAT32 on your Mac to make it work. Don't spend the extra money on the Mac specific drive. Search youtube for Reformatting a drive from NTFS to FAT32.
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My use of this drive has been exclusively on the Mac. However, I did not use any of the back-up software or formatting provided on the drive. It was necessary to use the Mac disk utility to reformat the drive. Then it worked with Apple's Time Machine.
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Yes. Your Mac will ask how you want to format the drive. You choose the format that works best in your environment.
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I am no expert, but the way I understand it, your data is loaded directly to a flash drive, so any system that can accept a flash drive will be OK. So, yes a Mac 10.6 and this unit will be OK
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups... I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner. BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable! Fingers crossed on reliability, Yikesboy
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No one has responded. My tech expert son believes that we will be able to do it. We will try this afternoon. I will hopefully be able to update you on our progress. Only other issue is that I do not have sufficient memory on my MacBook Pro right now...so we will try to transfer "through" the Mac to an external hard drive.