I have just purchased a ’My Passport’ HD. as it stated ‘Designed for the Mac’ - on the box. However on connecting it to my Mac I find that the WD Drive Utilities and WD Security are not compatible with my G5 Power PC Mac running OSX 10-5-8. Although the web site says the drive is compatible. I h…

Hello, I could not locate that model number but if your drive came with WD Smartware software then I recommend you use WD Smartware. You can also use Apple’s backup software (Time Machine) WD SmartWare for Mac Back up data using Time Machine

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wingrove June 29, 2014, 6:20am 7

Thank you Master - Problem solved, the Passport now works perfectly with OSX 10.5.8 Time Machine.