Wd My Passport For Mac Stuck On Preparing Backup

ALL of MY WD 'My Passport' for MAC, portable hard drives that I've purchased over the last 8 years have worked straight out of the box without recourse to having to use the bundled WD software. Dvd rw ad 7560s ata device driver for mac. They're sold as MAC and Time Machine compatible. No need to use the WD software. There's no need to even instal the software on your computer.

The normal operation of Time machine uses a shortcut called the File System Event Store, a list of recent folders that have changed. Users who do a major upgrade, as you just did, find that the File System Event Store is overwhelmed by the changes, and not usable by Time machine for computing which files need to be backed up. This forces Time Machine to do 'deep traversal' which can take all afternoon, before it can begin the actual copying of files.

It is likely NOT stuck. It is likely operating as designed. You just have to wait it out. Eventually it will have its list ready and will start copying files.

Jul 28, 2018 7:08 PM