However, many users complain their WD My Passport is read-only on Mac as the user below in the WD community. You may want to transfer files to WD My Passport from Mac. My Passport comparison, WD My Passport external hard drives are the more widely used. Its product line covers WD My Passport, WD Easystore, WD My Passport Ultra, WD My Book, WD Elements, WD My Passport for Mac, and more. Western Digital is one of the most popular hard drive manufacturers. Scenario 3: Your WD My Passport hard drive is corrupted Scenario 2: You have read-only permission to access the WD My Passport hard drive Scenario 1: Your WD My Passport hard drive is NTFS-formatted

If possible I'd like some help getting rid of all the stuff that's in WD discovery too. Anyways, I'm just so confused I just want a hard drive to store some pics in pls help me thank youĪlso for some reason in Disk Utility, it says my WD Discovery only has 2.0 GB free space, with 2.4 GB of used space. Then I had to Google wtf Recovery is, and I found out there's like 2 diff types of recovery, one is internet based and one isnt (?). Someone suggested running First Aid, which I did + that found a corruption in the passport but told me to fix it by running First Aid in Recovery. Click Done to continue.' After that I fell into a rabbit hole on Google and everything got so confusing so I didn't know what to do. However, when I tried to reformat it per the instructions of Google, it gave me an error message 'Erase process has failed. I went with APFS over Mac OS Extended because even though my Mac is old (2016), it has High Sierra version 10.13.6, and I was told anything after 10.13 should use APFS. Anyways so I went on to try to move files in/out, realized it's read only, realized I had to reformat it to APFS (I think?). I just want to back up specific photos and documents. So basically I bought a 4TB WD My Passport, plugged it in, accidentally clicked on WD Discovery but once it started uploading files I pressed cancel bc I don't want a backup of my mac. Here's a super detailed explanation of my situation: I'd really appreciate if I could get some help with this, googling it just confuses me so much more. I'm not good with technology at all and this hard drive I bought is making my life SO HARD.

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