I just upgraded all my apple machines at home to Lion and now have the same error message…I am unable to use TimeMachine due to drive not supportin “AFP”. This is clearly a serious matter for your users; when can we expect a response? Thanks, Robin
Update…this issue is rising on Apple’s site as one people are experiencing as a result of Lion upgrade. WD please update your customers!
I just bought a 4TB sharespace to backup my Imac/Mac book prior to upgrading. I upgrade absolutely fine and now I can’t use the sharespace.
WD whats your excuse - didn’t you do some compatability testing???
Very poor service, perhaps a quick turnaround of an update for the sharespace can redeem what clearly is lost faith by many users.
i can only quote i am on the same position buyed a world edition 1 week ago and now i cant use it
i will return it to the reseller tomorrow
because WD dont care about Mac user and i know that i have to wait months before get an update
Guys, read this reply http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-World-Edition/My-Book-World-Edition-and-OS-X-Lion-10-7-and-Time-Machine/m-p/226708#M5239
Even if it was tested and fixed in the beta, the final build has a different revision, making a patch designed to work with the beta pointless since the final build is not the same. Apple’s decision to replace known Linux protocols that have been working for years with proprietary protocols is the cause of your problem, and is affecting Mac users, developers and manufacturers alike.
hi
Not realy making a product then don’t following the update of its supported OS is something to blame not that i have to check what others do if it was a program writed by me it would be already compatible with lion its just WD that dont care about it and you are just trying to defend them
this is what i think
Really? If your logic is correct, then Seagate, iOmega, Qnap and other big NAS manufacturers are not in the exact same position as WD.
That, Sir, is not correct.
All of them are on the same boat as WD, thanks to Apple. Go to the Seagate forums, go to the Qnap forums, or better yet, go to the Apple forums and you’ll see all kind of NAS brands not working with Lion, yet Apple’s branded Time Capsule is working better than ever…
Go to those forums and see for yourself.
WD has stated that it’s working on an update that it’s delayed because of Apple’s changes between the beta and the final build, just like Seagate and Qnap; so many companies can’t be wrong. Also, there are going to be devices that won’t be able to physically support Lion due to controller limitations as the protocols used by Lion are new and proprietary Apple protocols instead of the open-source protocols that have been used for years.
There are things that can’t be solved with an update and a lot of NAS drives (As well as USB drives, printers, webcams, and many other things) will have to be physically redesigned and manufactured to support Lion. And if you have one of those, then you’ll be out of luck.
Indeed its all those company fault not that WD is wrost
but mabye it would be good to demostrate to be better you dont think? there was a released candidate since begin of 2011
they make the beta to let the developer test its software on it and get ready ti release a firmware update
but you know? its uselees who care if the customers can’t do backup for 2 months we dont care since they already payed for the product (reading what you did writed you are following this line of thought) its is call developer preview for some reason you know
illidan155 wrote:its is call developer preview for some reason you know
Exactly. And that preview does not stay as it is before the final release; Apple keeps working on the preview while developers keep the published beta release candidate. You have no idea just how many things can be changed in just another day of development rendering the developer preview obsolete just one day after.
Specially if we are talking about hardware.
A software update can be made ready by using the new code, while a physical device might have a physical limitation that prevents it from working on the new system. What if the SS ends up not being compatible with Lion at all? WD will have to physically make a new SS just to address that, making WD get millions of angry customers with an outdated model, forcing WD to upgrade all of their customers to the new model and losing millions of dollars and customers in the process. Do you honestly think WD would prefer to do that? Of course not.
If they could, they would have had an update for Lion on day one, but it’s not possible because they had to start over with the update, just like many other hardware manufacturers (Thanks to Apple). Not everything is future-proof.
Quoting myself from another thread:
Windows 7 came out in October 2009 and I updated (From XP) in April 2010 after making sure that all updates, patches and drivers on my devices were ready to support W7 and I saved myself from going through an incompatibility headache.
I plan on doing the same once more and wait until everything is updated before I jump from Snow Leopard to Lion, and I honestly can’t understand this “I must update to Lion on the very first day/month of release while blindly expecting for everything to work in a perfectly perfect fashion or I’m going to die” fever… Anyone ever heard of patience?
not realy they changed the protocol i belive on the mid of the beta so not that it changed tons of time making the previous work useless its just that they need to keep an eye but they dont want since it cost that is all
DHX2 authentication within Netatalk 2.2. was completely different in the beta.
don’t know i have to check i remeber that my synology box din’t worked even on the beta
