WD My Passport Slim

WD External Drives WD Portable Drives
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Hello and thank you for allowing me to post my question here.   

I recently had an external drive crash on me with all my photography on it, I was able to get an “expert” to retrieve the date and put all onto my new external drive (the WD My Passport Slim)

I own a Mac book air laptop computer, (previous was a desktop PC) and my “expert” claimed that the My Passport was compatible with my laptop.  I am able to view the images that are on my new drive through my laptop, but I’m unable for some strange reason to drop, drag, copy/paste, transfer images to it that are already existing on my mac laptop.  is there something simple I’ve missed?   I have been through the manual, and it tells me that it won’t even work for my particular mac air laptop.  have I wasted time and money on this external drive?  

please help.

Sue aka panthrcat

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You posted in the My Passport Wireless forum section.

The forum section for your Passport Slim is here:

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-Portable-Drives/bd-p/BoardExample2

…but to answer your question before the post gets moved, the Passport Slim is compatible out-of-the-box with your Mac as long as your Mac supports NTFS.  Otherwise, Macs will only be able to READ NTFS drives.

Or, you can reformat the drive for HFS+J to make it Mac-writable.   Reformating will erase all your files, so you’ll need to find a home for the files before you reformat, or install something like Paragon drivers to make the drive Read/Write.

Perhaps a Mac owner will chime in on how to do that.