WD My Passport & MAC OS 10.15

WD External Drives External Drives for Mac
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Just finished installing the new MAC OS 10.15 and I wanted to know which FORMAT is the correct one to do a back-up on my Passport. Unfortunately I am a “neophyte” in this subject and am a little puzzled not understanding the meaning of “NTFS for Mac”. Can someone help me out on this? Thanks.

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NTFS for Mac means you can use that drive on either Mac systems or Windows systems. If you use TimeMachineBackup, I think it prefer to format the drive as HFS+

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Thank you. Is HFS+ similar to the MAC OS Extended (Journaled)?

If I want to do a back-up manually, can I just “drag” the files I am interested in right into the WD external drive?

Thanks again for your response.

Regards,

Richard

Ing [Jubilado] Richard E Frank

Urb. Pribanco - Calle 63B #4C

Bethania, Panamá

Cel: +507 6613-9221

E-mail: randbfrank@gmail.com

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[quote=“REFrank, post:3, topic:242735”]
Is HFS+ similar to the MAC OS Extended (Journaled)? YES

If I want to do a back-up manually, can I just “drag” the files I am interested in right into the WD external drive? YES