I’m trying to transfer pictures and files to my external storage device (WD My Passport) but nothing will transfer. Any clue on what I need to do? I hoped it would be as simple as dragging my files, Word documents, and pictures to the WD My Passport external storage device as you would to a small thumb drive, but not happening.
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15
You can just launch Disk Utility and select the drive by Device-name, and click Erase. give it a name, and in a minute or two it will be ready-to-go.
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
This more complete article is needlessly complex because it covers the case where the drive to be erased is the Boot drive. Recovery Mode is NOT needed for what you are doing.
How to erase a disk for Mac - Apple Support
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You can just launch Disk Utility and select the drive by Device-name, and click Erase. give it a name, and in a minute or two it will be ready-to-go.
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
This more complete article is needlessly complex because it covers the case where the drive to be erased is the Boot drive. Recovery Mode is NOT needed for what you are doing.
How to erase a disk for Mac - Apple Support
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Some of those drives come from the factory as Windows New Technology File System (NTFS). Microsoft considers that format proprietary, and has threatened to sue anyone who writes that format without a license. Apple considers this nonsense, so they do not support WRITING NTFS format drives natively.
The answer is the use Disk Utility to ERASE the DEVICE (not just the Volume) by its immutable hardware-name, which creates a good partition Map and Mac Volume in the process. If given a choice the default MacOS extended (journaled) is preferable for a rotating drive.
Thank you for the response. Would you know where I can find detailed instruction on how to do that? The aggravating part is that the store that sold me the Mac, recommended this storage device for it, very frustrating.
I’ll try it and let you know how it worked. Greatly appreciated!
File Transfer from MacBook Pro to WD My Passport
