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Now that you know your items have been backed up, EJECT/REMOVE “My Passport for MAC” to be safe, and start deleting items you choose off your computer’s hard drive to free up space. Click iTunes, you should see folders: Album Artwork, iTunes Media, iTunes Music.Ĭlicking on any of the above mentioned folders shows what’s backed up. You should also see a folder labeled “music”, click that. Click that & you will see all your pics/pic folders you made You should see a folder labeled “pictures”. The last Folder listed should say “users”, click that.Īgain, folder with the name your registered the computer with shows, click that.Įverything backed up shows. Next click any folder listed or “latest” folder showing.

Next a folder with the name your registered the computer with shows, click that.

Next click the 1st folder labeled Backups. To check,Ĭlick on the icon of a hard drive saying “My Passport for Mac”.

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I purchased Western Digital My Passport 1 TB Portable Hard Drive for Mac, Silver by Western Digitalĭuring the 1st use which can take hrs if you computer’s disc is full (mine took 3-6 hrs), “My Passport for Mac” backs up EVERYTHING on your computer. I just got off the phone with them to get help with your exact question :-) LOL. However, these are the steps they will take you through to confirm that your computers info has indeed been backed up.

If your not sure, be safe call WD’s (Western Digital Technologies) support service line (USA To Call) or specifically pick your product 1st & solve online, which will depend on your area/country. If you ordered a “My Passport for MAC”, chances are the WD external drive has been pre-formatted/compatible to work with your Mac/Apple device including Mac/Apple’s Time Machine app that allows you to back up your information, pics, media, ect.

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Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the 'select library' option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)Īnd be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhotoĪnd backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external driveįor iMovie support it is best to post in the iMovie forum Once you have an extrenal drive that is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)

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In general for a drive to be used as storage for your iPhoto library it must be formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - you can check this by selecting the drive in the finder and getting info - it is is not formatted mac OS extended (journaled) you can reformat it using the MyPassport software or disk utility in your applications folder (note that this erases everything on the disk)

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Is Time Machine currently backing this computer up? If it is set to automatic, then it may be backing up your computer constantly to this hard drive.Note that none of your questions have any thing to do with iPhoto - for specific answer on how to use yoru MyPassport disk you need to contact their suppor tor support forumsīy default the iPhoto library is stored in your Pictures folder (not in a my Pictures folder - not sure where you got that) - if you do not have a Pictures folder then you have deleted it - it is there by default on all new Macs So, let the backup process complete, and then disable automatic for backup Is Time Machine currently backing this computer up? If it is set to automatic, then it may be backing up your computer constantly to this hard drive. Ask the developer of the Security Software which version of the uninstaller is the correct one to use. Security Software just gets in the way on a Mac, and this is a pure example of how and why. If installed, uninstall it, using an uninstaller. If you have Security Software installed, then that may be scanning this hard drive consistently. Viewing the items in Force Quit, is anything running? If so, open the application and close it. How can I find out what application is preventing me from ejecting?”

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“ Can't Eject External Hard Drive: Hello! I have a 2020 MacBook Pro and a WD My Passport for Mac 4TB, and sometimes when I want to eject it it says 'one or more programs may be using it' and I can force eject, but I don't want to risk the contents of the drive.