Western Digital My Book for Mac (USB 3.0) User Manual User Manual

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MY BOOK FOR MAC

USER MANUAL

CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED

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7.

On Lion or Mountain Lion:

a. If you want to create a password to secure your backup files, select the Encrypt

Backup Disk check box.

b. Click

Use as Backup Disk.

c. If you selected the Encrypt Backup Disk check box at step a, complete the

backup password dialog that displays:

d. Click Encrypt Disk.

8.

The My Book icon now displays as:

9.

Your My Book drive is now ready to use as an external storage device. You can

enhance its performance by installing the following software that is on the drive:

• WD +TURBO utility (see “Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO” in the next

section)

• WD Security software (see “Installing the WD Security Software” on page 10)

• WD Drive Utilities software (see “Installing the WD Drive Utilities Software” on

page 11)

IF you . . . want to use the drive with
the Time Machine software,


THEN . . .

Do not

Click Don’t Use and skip to step 9.

Do

Proceed to step a.

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