WD 4TB My Passport Ultra for Mac Silver Portable External Hard Drive, USB-C - WDBPMV0040BSL-WESN. By Western Digital. $129.99 $ 129 99 $140.84 Prime. Works with Mac OS High Sierra. WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN. By Western Digital. Your WD was working fine on Sierra or below versions, right? You need to contact WD and check with them if their devices have High Sierra support. Then I updates me passport for mac with new drivers because it was extremely slow. And now it’s now shown in my finder showing just WD unlocker. ![]() Got a new WD My Passport drive? Not sure how to set it up on your Mac or maybe you are thinking about buying one and want to know whether it would work on your Mac. The answer is yes! Don’t worry in 10 quick steps I’ll tell you how to format WD My Passport for Mac. One of the first things to note is that there are two main versions available of this external hard drive. The first is preformatted and is called simply WD My Passport. Incidentally it is the cheaper version to buy. NTFS as a disk format (also referred to as a file system) is designed to plug into a Windows PC. NTFS version The drive in this format is readable by a Mac but cannot be written to by a Mac. But don’t worry this default file system is easy to change with a little bit of know how, a few clicks of your mouse and of course this article. The second version the WD My Passport comes in is a ‘for Mac’ version. ❌ Cons • What Lightwork’s free version gains in advanced features it loses in basic export options. Video editor for mac by creative cloud. ? Price • Free • Monthly Pro License $19.90 • Boris FX Year License $132.76 • Boris FX Outright License $331.92 excl. • Lightworks has a partnership with coveted video effects and plugin producers. • The free version will only allow you to export 720p videos which simply isn’t good enough in the era of 2k and 4k video. Existing FL Studio users will get the for free, thanks to Image-Lines's lifetime updates plan, while new customers can expect to pay $90 for the entry-level version. Support is available for both VST and AU plugins, and projects are interchangeable with PC and Mac -- transition between the two even takes into account third-party, as long as they're installed on both platforms. Other new features include support for different time signatures, in-situ audio rendering, Playlist support for multiple arrangements, new and updated plugins, and extended recording options. Mac live studio program for music. This means it is preformatted at the factory to HFS (Hierarchical File System) version It is worth bearing in mind that HFS and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system are one and the same. It is just that Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system is how the file system is referred to on the Mac within its menus. It is designed to be ‘plug and play’. Plug into your Mac and just use the disk. You do pay extra for this preformatting and in my experience I have occasionally found that you end up reformatting anyway because – Well a Mac is just a Mac and sometimes they just want the disks on them they have formatted themselves You need to format the NTFS version of WD My Passport for a Mac and the second you ‘may’ need to format depending on how your Mac feels, so why not save yourself some dollars and go for the cheaper NTFS formatted version? ![]() Table of Contents • • • • • • • • What do you plan to use the WD My Passport Drive For? It is worth taking a few minutes before you go ahead and format your shiny new drive, thinking about your planned use. For example are you thinking of • Storage of files • Using the drive as your Time Machine backup disk?
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