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Uploading from WD My Passport onto new Macbook Pro...HELP!!!

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ambergma

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HELP!! I am new to Macs. I am replacing and old Dell PC Laptop with this awesome Macbook Pro but I can't figure out how I can upload the files that I saved on my new WD My Passport 1TB external drive onto my new Mac. With the PC it automatically loaded "WD Smartware" onto my computer but it didn't load it onto my Mac.

HELP! How can I upload and use all of the music, MS Word, PPT, Exel and photo files onto my new Mac?
 
Did you use the WD Smartware software to back up the PC? If so, that's where you went wrong. The Smartware on that MyPassport isn't compatible with the Mac. You can plug the drive back into the PC and drag the files you need to the drive, then you can get them off the drive onto the Mac.

Just an FYI, you won't be able to copy TO that drive from the Mac, you can only read it on the Mac.
 
Forget.....

the WD software, that can be Windows-only....Try to clone the drive to your new shiny Mac with CCC....Good luck with it....


:):apple:
 
phoenixsan said:
the WD software, that can be Windows-only....Try to clone the drive to your new shiny Mac with CCC....Good luck with it....


:):apple:
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Are the WD My Passport drives still usable on the Mac as long as you ignore the WD software amd format it GUID/osx extended? I'm looking for another backup drive and iomega seems to be gone.
 
old-wiz said:
Are the WD My Passport drives still usable on the Mac as long as you ignore the WD software amd format it GUID/osx extended? I'm looking for another backup drive and iomega seems to be gone.
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I formatted my new WD My Passport as FAT. It works seamlessly between OS X and Windows (no software required) except FAT can't be used with time machine, need to make an HFS partition for that
 
phoenixsan said:
the WD software, that can be Windows-only....Try to clone the drive to your new shiny Mac with CCC....Good luck with it....


:):apple:
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Except if the OP is copying from a Windows computer to the Mac, why would you CCC the Windows drive and is CCC even available for Windows?

old-wiz said:
Are the WD My Passport drives still usable on the Mac as long as you ignore the WD software amd format it GUID/osx extended? I'm looking for another backup drive and iomega seems to be gone.
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Yup. I have a 2 TB MyPassport drive with a 500 GB ExFat partition and a 1.5 TB partition for TM. It's a "normal" one, not a "For Mac" one. I highly recommend using ExFAT rather than FAT for multi-OS drives as ExFAT supports file sizes over 4 GB but is also read/write on Windows AND OS X.
 
The OP.....

hallux said:
Except if the OP is copying from a Windows computer to the Mac, why would you CCC the Windows drive and is CCC even available for Windows?



Yup. I have a 2 TB MyPassport drive with a 500 GB ExFat partition and a 1.5 TB partition for TM. It's a "normal" one, not a "For Mac" one. I highly recommend using ExFAT rather than FAT for multi-OS drives as ExFAT supports file sizes over 4 GB but is also read/write on Windows AND OS X.
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had stated he o she have the files already in the WD drive....

:):apple:
 
phoenixsan said:
had stated he o she have the files already in the WD drive....

:):apple:
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Yes, I read that. You then went on to suggest trying to clone the drive using CCC, which is not possible or desirable as the old machine is a Windows machine.

From your previous post:
...Try to clone the drive to your new shiny Mac with CCC
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In what context is that suggestion being made? To clone from the WD to the Mac? If the files were copied using the WD software, CCC won't help. If they WEREN'T copied using the WD software, I don't think there would be much confusion.
 
I assume....

hallux said:
Yes, I read that. You then went on to suggest trying to clone the drive using CCC, which is not possible or desirable as the old machine is a Windows machine.

From your previous post:


In what context is that suggestion being made? To clone from the WD to the Mac? If the files were copied using the WD software, CCC won't help. If they WEREN'T copied using the WD software, I don't think there would be much confusion.
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the files are copied correctly in the WD drive. So, was in that situation I advised to clone the WD contents into the Mac.....
 
Why not just use migration assistant or file sharing

If you haven't really set up anything you can't lose on the new Mac then grab yourself an extra Ethernet cable and plug the two machines together. Download the windows migration assistant from apple's website, install and start it on the PC.
On the Mac! locate the migration assistant program in the utilities folder of your applications. Start it up and follow the prompts to set up a transfer from a PC.

It will likely take a good 4/5 hours if not more so do it when you don't need the computer. But it will grab your files and put them in the right spots for you.

It will do it as a new user so then you log out, log into that one and you can delete the first one.

If you have set up things the way you want you can also turn on file sharing and run a connection to your Mac and hand copy your docs, photos etc.
 
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