#My Passport Will Not Show Up For Mac Using HFS#

Since then, when I plug the hard drive into the computer (directly into the USB port) the. A couple of days ago I accidently pulled the cord out of the USB port without properly ejecting. I have a 2TB My Passport External Hard Drive that I have been using for the past few moths with no issues. My Passport (2TB) suddenly not showing up on Mac.

My Passport Will Not Show Up For Mac Using HFS

Its like: 'There IS a hard drive here. I don't think Time Machine initializes drives - did you use Disk Utility? Or, did El Capitan add this feature to Time Machine?Look, I have already formated my passport for mac using HFS+, NTFS and FAT32 but when I connect it on a Windows Vista notebook, it detects the drive, but the icon doesnt appear. Apple's Passport? I think you mean Western Digital. In this video I will show you how you can easily.I don't understand. From the File menu, choose Back Up.

Caseyz October 15, 2015, 1:29am 1. WD External Drives External Drives for Mac. Even then, I kept TM turned off until I felt the need for a backup.This happens because OSX forces a disk check/repair in the background before mounting the drive (since it was ejected improperly), so it will simply.My Passport Not showing up. 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).

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. Not really solving or understanding the issue.Since the backups appear to work fine, I think the underlying issue is the Finder not properly applying (refreshing) the volume icon. Maybe it's a bug? Dunno.All 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.

I copied the green color to the icon. 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.Backups are successfully occurring. But I wouldn't recommend this, as TM might have problems despite the icon having the right colour.

My Passport For Mac Will Not Show Up