It would start doing its own back up when the VO cursor passed over the "backup" button without pressing it. On my disk that I got on Black Friday from Apple, it appears that the software actually on the disk is incompatible with Snow Leopard, so I downloaded a version much newer, installed the WD special SW that is supposed to speed up disk access, download new disk firmware and then got only 40GB stored iVia time machine before the disk claimed to be mangled beyond any additional writing.
After uninstalling the WD software from my applications, and rebuilding the HFS partition a fourth time, the drive is working faster at time machine backups, and passed the disk utility first aid tests. If anybody wants the software that causes the Virtual CD to disappear I have it stashed away. Jon Beware of the WD software that Western Digital supplies. I spent several hours fighting the beast and getting corrupt disk partitions, and locked up WD software. Also found that -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
