I have a problem with a family member’s Western Digital My Passport drives. He has a 27” 2017 iMac. He has two new WD USB 3 drives. They are regularly swapped and used for Time Machine backups, but they are unreliable. He gets a message titled “Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to.”, “Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder”.
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If he ejects the drive, unplugs it and the plugs it back in it will backup just fine. He says he can put the iMac to sleep, then wake it up and manually force a backup. If he does this it backs up. But other times he can wake the machine and find this error. Does anyone have any ideas? I don’t think this is related but I also couldn’t reformat these drives to HFS+ when I got them using Apple’s Disk Utilty.
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I couldn’t rename the drive either. I had to use the Western Digital utility to reformat the drive. After that I could rename the drive. Is Western Digital to blame for this nonsense or Apple? I’ve used WD drives in the past and loved them, but this is unacceptable.
My last external drive used for back up died after 2 years, so I decided to try another brand specifically for Mac that is designed for Time Machine. I decided on the WD My Passport for Mac 500GB model after checking out the Apple site and various forums.
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It is exactly what I needed and does what it is supposed to do. You plug it in via USB, (no external power required), an icon comes up on screen, it opens Time Machine, and off it goes! I don't want any hassles with back up and it should be easy - and this WD is. It's also very small, so sits neatly next to my MacBook Pro on the desk and then slips into my bag when I need to take it with me.
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