I have recently bought a My Passport with smartware and I am having all sort of issues.
To check if they are due to the WD My Passport I disconnected the drive and unchecked WDDMStatus.exe in Startup.
Still in Services WDDMService ans WD File Management Engine are running.
And I am getting error messages in my Windows log.
I would love to work with smartware for some files that I like to keep up to date constantly and also would like to use the password protection but all those services running when not needed really disgust me