Western Digital release fix for data loss on external drives

[TV Cameraman]

Western Digital has released new versions of their SmartWare and WD Drive Manger software. Theses releases are aimed at preventing the data losses some people experienced on their external WD drives after upgrading to Mavericks.

WD SmartWare Version 1.3.6 for Mac

WD Drive Manager for Mac Version 3.1.0

 

[TV Cameraman]

Ha! I beat the Front Page of Macrumors by 1 minute! I had sent it to tips@macrumors right before I posted here.

WD released the updates yesterday. Kind of strange that no one noticed until today... they had so much bad press about this, I figured they would do an all-out PR assault with the news of this fix.

Hope it prevents more data loss from happening. I was lucky and did not lose any data on my and of my 7 WD external drives. I uninstalled the old software with the uninstaller they had posted on their website for a while and now I'm unsure if should install this new software at all. Does the new software have a fix built in? Or was the fix removing the software to begin with? I still haven't plugged my externals back in...

 

[amoergosum]

I uninstalled the old software with the uninstaller they had posted on their website for a while and now I'm unsure if should install this new software at all.

I would never ever install software from WD again.

 

[old-wiz]

I would never ever install software from WD again.

I never install vendor's software at all if I can avoid it.

 

[S.B.G]

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Western Digital Releases New Hard Drive Software After Mavericks Data Loss