Setup My Passport Wd Mac And Want

This is particularly useful when you have upgraded your Mac and want to restore your files to your new Mac.

If I use Time Machine Do I only have access to the drive from the one Computer 2.

One is WD My Passport and is designed to be plugged into and work straight away with a Windows PC.

Take a look at my article on how to choose an external hard drive for Mac.

One end of the cable is USB 3.0 (and USB 2.0) compatible and that is the end you connect to your Mac.

The My Passport drive will run just fine on the Thunderbolt port of your newer Mac at the USB 3.0 speed specifications.

Divide your drive into sections and use the drive for different things.

Go to the top of the desktop finder window and select EditPaste.

Move to the last file hold down the shift key and click and all the files in between will be selected.

Move to the finder window of the My Passport drive and release the cursor and the files will be moved across.

Do make sure you have a copy of the entire drive or copies of the files elsewhere just in case the drive should fail.

Select and Copy the files from where they are to where you want them to be on your internal drive.

I give you a link to it here as an additional resource should you appreciate watching a video.

Copy and paste or drag and drop to it as I have described in the copy and paste section above.

And then you can connect the USB cable into your Windows PC and view and use the files there.

Or.

If it doesnt do that particularly if it your first time setting up Time Machine, select the slider from off to on to turn on Time Machine.

Choose the disk or partition you have named and created as the destination for your Time Machine backup.

Youll see the option at the bottom left corner of the Time Machine screen.

On the next screen check the box to Show Time Machine in menu bar.

There is absolutely no reason why a My Passport drive that is large enough cant be split into two partitions.

One partition acting as the backup partition for one Mac when it is plugged into that Mac.

And the other partition as the backup to the second Mac when it is plugged in there.

How To Setup My Passport Wd For Mac