Without a doubt, this WD 2TB My Passport for Mac Portable External Hard Drive - Blue, USB-C/USB-A - WDBA2D0020BBL-WESN is an excellent means for storing and maintaining your important data. At its current price ($90.00), I believe that it represents excellent value for money. Hey there, To get around this format limitation you have two options, either format the drive FAT32 (MS DOS FAT on the Mac) or download a third party application on the Mac called NTFS 3G that will allow you to use a drive on Mac even if is formatted for Windows, there is some information I used from WD web site below that might be useful for you. WD My Passport elements are not readable on Mac? This tutorial shows how to fix WD My Passport not readable or corrupted on macOS Catalina/Mojave/High Sierra and how to recover data from unreadable WD external hard drives with free Mac data recovery software. Can I use my new passport on both MAC and PC. WD External Drives. External Drives for Mac. October 15, 2015, 1:28am #1. I have a PC at work and a MAC at home, and I would like to be able to use it on both computer. In reading the manual it shows that you can format the drive to either MAC or PC, but doesn’t show a set up to use it. WD My Passport elements are not readable on Mac? This tutorial shows how to fix WD My Passport not readable or corrupted on macOS Catalina/Mojave/High Sierra and how to recover data from unreadable WD external hard drives with free Mac data recovery software.
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 forums
By 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
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)
Once you have an extrenal drive that is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) Writing software for mac osx.
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)
And 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 iPhoto
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And 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 drive
For iMovie support it is best to post in the iMovie forum
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