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1. #Turn off time machine on mac how to#
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#Turn off time machine on mac portable#

With your Passport your Mac portable storage plugged in.ĭouble click on the hard drive icon on your desktop.

#Turn off time machine on mac how to#

How To Use 1: Create Folders On Your WD My Passport Drive

Great! Now let’s get to the meat of how to use your WD external hard drive on Mac. When you’re finished then head back here. You’ll also find a ton of helpful images. You’ll find an article showing you how to format WD My Passport for Mac. It’s easy to do and only takes a few minutes.Īnd you’ll use software that’s free on your Mac called Disk Utility to do it. And they often like them formatted on a Mac. Macs can be picky about the drives put on them.

#Turn off time machine on mac for mac#

Ready to use on your Mac.īut you’ll find it’s best to format both WD My Passport and WD My Passport for Mac on your Mac. If you’ve a WD My Passport for Mac it comes HFS+ formatted. How To Use My Passport For Mac? Where To Start Or take a wider look at the external drive market in this best of article. Take a look at this head to head article pitting the WD My Passport against the WD Elements drive. If you haven’t bought your WD My Passport drive yet and are thinking about your options. So, why pay the extra dollars for the one sold and branded for Mac.Īnd with a tiny bit of know how you can have the WD My Passport non Mac version working fine on your Mac. It’s in a format that your Mac understands and will work with straight away.īut for that ease of use it costs a little more. The ‘for Mac’ part of the title means that you can plug right into your Mac. One is WD My Passport and it’s made for plug and play with a Windows PC. There are two products under the WD My Passport title.

Open Terminal (in Applications -> Utilities), and enter this command: defaults write DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool YESįrom now on, when you connect external drives, OS X will not ask if you’d like to use them with Time Machine. It requires one command in Terminal and the first version below assumes you’ve already set up Time Machine on one drive (if you haven’t, the required preferences file won’t yet exist). Thankfully, there’s a way to disable this alert. As such, by the 10th time you see that dialog, you’re instead thinking “I’ve said no nine times in a row now, I think you’d be able to figure out how I’m going to answer that question by now!” I’ve got four amazingly powerful CPU cores and 4GB of RAM at my disposal, and still, that’s apparently not enough power to hazard a guess at my answer? But I digress… The first time you see this, you think “Wow, that’s a nice touch, Apple! Always thinking about what’s best for me!”īut if you’re like me, FireWire and USB drives come and go through your workspace like dust in the wind. In OS X 10.5, each time you connect an external drive for the first time, the system will thoughtfully ask if you’d like to use that drive for your Time Machine backup.