people do whatever they want and don't learn their lessons it seems).
#Doing backups on my passport for mac for mac
If I'm here, it's because one of my neighbours recently lend an external WD My Passport for Mac hard drive to me so that I can transfer its data to a newer drive (well, another My Passport. LED remains stationary, until the 3rd click is heard (blinks slowly from that time). Drive also clicks once every 60 seconds but stops clicking after 3rd attempt (and keeps spinning). Tl dr version: Faulty My Passport drive, suspected damaged SA or access to SA impossible as it won't show its correct capacity in WD Drive Utilites and any VSC command is ineffective. I also do computer repair as a hobby and a service as long as it remains within my skills. My external hard drives are all enclosures I buy in order to fit regular SATA drives in them and do not contain sensible data (or are used for backup purposes). Besides, I would never ever myself buy one of those solutions companies like Western Digital, Seagate or even Samsung or whatever want you to buy as an external hard drive. For those who might recognize that name, they probably wonder why I'm posting here since I should know the basic rules about data preservation and failure prevention. To see if TM is working, you either have a good enough memory that you would notice if the menubar icon hasn't changed to active for a while or you just click on it from time to time to check for the time of the last backup.īackups are successfully occurring.
But I wouldn't recommend this, as TM might have problems despite the icon having the right colour. If you use the colour of the icon as a check whether TM is working, then it is not solving the problem. If you use the colour of the icon as a help in not accidentally ejecting the Time Machine drive, then copying the icon is a valid workaround. Since the backups appear to work fine, I think the underlying issue is the Finder not properly applying (refreshing) the volume icon. Not really solving or understanding the issue. Maybe it's a bug? Dunno.Īll you're *actually* doing is cut-n-pasting the *ICON* from the amber version to the green version. I ran a search on the question, and other mid-2011 iMac owners in discussion boards post the same question. It's just a little annoying, to always see that icon amber on my desktop. The backups don't take as long now, as initially. It immediately went into a backup, and has been doing them automatically, since. When I first plugged it into the USB port, I was asked whether I wanted to choose that drive for Time Machine, and I clicked Yes. Yes, the drive is Western Digital, with a label "My Passport for Mac". Since I haven't had your problem, perhaps it is El Capitan-related. I do think that TM is taking a long time to finish your backup. Even then, I kept TM turned off until I felt the need for a backup.
I don't have TM hard drives permanently attached to the computer, although I have in the past. I manually tell TM when to backup, which is usually when something important has been added to the computer(s). I have four drives using Time Machine and the icons don't change color, although I'm not using El Capitan. I don't think Time Machine initializes drives - did you use Disk Utility? Or, did El Capitan add this feature to Time Machine? Apple's Passport? I think you mean Western Digital.
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