Hi ET, I've looked into this here in NZ, The difference is in nz approximately $50 and the format is Fat32 on the windows ones and mac osx extended Journaled on the mac ones,
Why because they can to make people think you need one over the other and the apple formatted ones are more costly, For people that don't know how to format a drive. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of E.T. Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2017 3:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Backing up the Mac I have 5 of the WD My Passport drives and none are for the Mac. Two are formatted for Windows, the rest for the Mac and each are partitioned. They all have been working fine. So I am curious what the difference is with the Mac version. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: [email protected] On 7/25/2017 5:38 AM, N2KPV wrote: > Well , After getting frustrated trying to format the drive , I took > it back and ordered a My Passport for Mac . If I encounter any > problems with this I will contact you guys . > Thanks , Ben > > On Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 4:23:10 AM UTC-4, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > If you find the drive in your computer volume listing, > And then do a command I to get info, > Then find the details that say format. See what it says. > > If you need to format the device to the mac os journaled then please > ask and we can advise you of how to do this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Constantini > Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2017 2:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Backing up the Mac > > I know with the Passport I didn’t have to format it . I am not so > adept in formatting . I tried going into disk utility but was not > sure where to go from there . I may go to staples this morning and > try another drive . > > On Jul 24, 2017, at 9:40 AM, E.T. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Are the drives formatted to macOS Extended Journaled? I also use > the Passport drives and do not have problems with any of them. > > > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . > > "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the > world, > > all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind > off > > and say God did it." --Carl Sagan > > E-mail: [email protected] > > > > On 7/24/2017 6:08 AM, N2KPV wrote: > >> Hi all , I have been backing up my late 2011 mac with a My Passport > >> for mac external hardrive . With the last update my mac stopped > >> recognizing the hargrive . i am running El Capitan on my mac . Any > >> suggestions ? I purchased a seagate for mac hardrive but my mac > >> doesn't support it . 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