I use two drives for Time Machine backups and the backup switches drives every 10 minutes to keep both drives up to date within 10 mins.Īnother option is to unplug the drives (I use a 4-drive enclosure attached to my Mac Mini using a thunderbolt cable.) Plug them back in when you want to do another backup. Other options if you have a spare Time Machine drive, erase the second drive and start again using the faster method shown above. I gave up the encryption at 12% encrypted on a 6TB drive. Look for “Conversion Progress” and check if “Conversion Direction:” is set to “backward”įYI: the decrypt process takes as long as the encrypt which was ok for me.
#My passport for mac stuck on encrypting windows 10#
You will be prompted with the OSX password unlock/decrypt dialog, After that it starts decrypting. How do I reformat an external hard drive for MacOs (WD my passport for Mac) on Windows 10 The wording of your question suggests that you want to write a new MacOS format to the WD using Win10. NOTE: If your disk name contains spaces you will need to format the last part as follows: /Volumes/”title-drive -password” e.g., /”Time Machine -password” Password Protection with Hardware Encryption The My Passport for Mac drive’s password protection and built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security software helps keep your content private and safe. I Terminal enter: diskutil cs revert /Volumes/title_drive -password My Passport for Mac includes USB-C and USB-A cables for universal compatibility with Mac computers of yesterday and today.
In 10.9+ you can roll back encryption while its busy encrypting.
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