Q: Mavericks corrupts external hard drive

USB 2.

It is slow. But it is OK for backup.

If your Seagate is USB3 you could contemplate buying a sata to USB3 cable only and forget about the Century box.

The reason I've included my above Q.'s is that ther problems are not specific to WD.  My external drive, sold as OEM, by Apple has the same problem(s).  The BC drivers in combination with T.M. and F.W.800 are the culprits.  Regardless of how many times you Clean and Install, things go always go awry upon T.M. backup.  It appears there is "seepage" across the partition which then corrupts the other operating system.  Apple has not updated B.C. since last April (5.05) and its drivers don't work or corrrupt especially with 64bit systems.  Let me know if you  have any thoughts.  The Boot Manager also has difficulty.

I have none of the WD files in my Library/Extensions folder either yet I have a problem with my WD drive a couple of weeks after installing Mavericks.  I was using my WD drive to store my music.  Suddenly today I am unable to access the music via iTunes (even though the pathway is entered correctly in iTunes).  Nothing shows up.  However, it LOOKS like my music files are still on the WD drive and the drive DOES mount on my desktop when I plug it into my MacBook Air (just can't access the music).  I am frantically trying to copy the files over to a Lacie drive just in hopes that I don't actually lose the files.

Has anyone else experienced a similar problem?

wcr1951 wrote:

 

I have none of the WD files in my Library/Extensions folder either yet I have a problem with my WD drive a couple of weeks after installing Mavericks. 

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Has anyone else experienced a similar problem?

You are looking in the wrong place for WD software. This post has a list of locations that can have WD software…

https://discussions.apple.com/message/24086835#24086835

EtreCheck will tell you more accuratly what is actually loading.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

This thread is full of people with WD & external drive issues, and it isn't the only thread here.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475611?start=0&tstart=0

See the user tip too.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6202

Frankly you would be wise to stop using the external disk & spend some time reading the threads here. 10.9 /WD software can wipe out your data (it seems to happen randomly).

wcr, go to a friend who uses 10.8 or earlier os, then you can mount your drive and backup your files there.

i have 2 mypassports which i cant mount or see in 10.9 but i can work and play with them at my wife´s macbook air with 10.8 or at any other system

Thank you for your response.  I did disconnect the drive and I have been reading the threads here.  I was primarily just commenting that I don't seem to have the WD files installed on my computer yet I have an issue with my WD external drive where I have my music stored.  I seem to have lost my iTunes library so I can't access the music on the WD drive.  At first I thought I had lost the files but after hooking up the drive to another computer it appears the files are still there so I transferred them to another external drive to have a fresh backup.  Perhaps my problem lies with iTunes and not the WD drive. 

If the OS doesn't show the files on the disk then iTunes won't see them either.

I think you should probably create your own thread so people can focus on your own specific issues, just link to it from here.

More nonsense from Western Digital:  This time I had someone on the support staff claim there was no beta release of Mavericks for them to test!

Check the following email.  italics and bold mine.

  From: WD Support <wdsupport@wdc.com>

Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2013, 2:14  

Dear Tom White,

Thank you for your reply.

To be sure, we stated earlier, Apple did not launch the beta version of OSX 10.9 which was sent to the industry, they launched later version.  The industry saw the version of OSX that the world saw on the day it launched. The industry had no pre-launch version for testing prior to the release. As an added frustration to the industry, Apple launched the OSX 10.9 a full month early.

blindeyetom wrote:

Yes, that statement is wholly untrue across the spectrum of its claims.

Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan -- Anon.

---GetRealBro

In all OS do not install WD software at all !!!

It is not just Mavericks, also (M)Lion....

"Apple did not launch the beta version of OSX 10.9 which was sent to the industry"

Assume that Apple had done that. The point is whether WD had tested their software with the beta version of Mavericks sent to the industry? (Here assume that WD had received the beta version.)

Not wanting to be over pedantic over WD's email, but of course the release was different from the beta, unless the beta was perfect and complete which it seldom is. The question is did they make final corrections that introduced new errors? It happens (see for example  https://discussions.apple.com/message/24120556#24120556 ) hence the 10.9.1 that many are longing for. Nobody can write 5GB of code with no bugs.

Well, yes, indeed, of course the final release was different to the beta versions.  But that communication from WD makes it sound like Apple released Mavericks onto the world as a complete unknown, which obviously it didn't.  I should just leave it alone but responses along those lines from Customer Service reps  just make me want to shake them by their ankles.