WD Quality Inside and Out WD builds drives to demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance and long-term reliability. Besides, it just sounds stupid, I should be able to delete old back ups easily. My Passport for Mac portable storage is ready to use out of the box so you can start transferring files, saving your memories and backing up right away. Mac not formatted to display external drives on the desktop. There was a regular hard disk at one time that would but it came with a program that you installed on the Mac.

Apple modified a NTFS file system format which does not exist on the drive table listing for formats. For more information, go to the same menu option, then select System Report. Is there a step by step guide for setting this up My iMac is running macOS Big Sur version 11.2.1 I thought this was going to be easy but not for me I guess. Yea, I had hooked up my mini-HD to my Mac mini to test it out and thought to explore 'why'. Apple (in the top toolbar menu) > About This Mac > Storage. I have read that it's possible deleting those old backups connecting the hard drive to a Windows PC but I do not have one (or any of my family or friends for that matter), surely there has to be a simpler way to clear up space from the hard drive, right? I have read to save the backup and files on my computer and then delete everything through disk utility, but I don't have enough space to keep the old backup and all the media I have stored on my HD in my mac (or another HD) in order to delete everything. The best way to look for an incorrectly formatted drive is to go to. I have tried deleting the old backups manually (I only need the last one, why would I need a backup from January?), however, the folder disappears but the space doesn't clear up, I'm guessing it's not possible to fully delete back ups this way. I have just realised that I have several old backups from my MacBook air stored in the hard drive which are taking quite a lot of space. I have purchased an external hard disk WD My Passport for Mac in order to backup my MacBook Air regularly (with time machine) and store films and pictures to save space from my mac.

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