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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE
USER MANUAL
USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC
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3.
Verify that the My Passport icon displays on your desktop, where “MY PASSPORT”
is the name you assigned to the volume when you reformatted the drive for use with
the Mac computer:
4.
The first time you connect your My Passport drive to your computer, a message asks
if you want to use the drive to back up with Time Machine:
WD SmartWare software is fully compatible with Apple's Time Machine software.
When using Time Machine, you can still use the WD SmartWare software for
password protecting the drive, registering the drive, and running drive diagnostics.
a. If you do not want to use the Time Machine backup software, click Cancel.
b. If you do want to use the Time Machine backup software, click Use as Backup
Disk. The My Passport icon now displays as:
Your My Passport 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 SmartWare software (see “Installing the WD SmartWare Software” on
Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO
WD +TURBO is a utility on the My Passport drive that you can install to improve the
performance of the drive on a Mac computer.
If you are going to install the WD SmartWare software, you do not need to install the WD
+TURBO utility yourself—the WD SmartWare software will install it for you. If you are not
going to install the WD SmartWare software, install WD +TURBO to enhance the
performance of your My Passport drive.