time machine couldnt complete the backup to my passport for mac

Time Hine Couldnt Complete The Backup To My Passport For Mac Does Not
Time Hine Couldnt Complete The Backup To My Passport Software Is Lacking

Time Hine Couldnt Complete The Backup To My Passport Software Is Lacking

It turns out that the installation of the new software is lacking the utilities uninstaller program.

However, within a day at most, I get an error telling me that Backup Failed.

Time Machine couldnt complete the backup to my 4TB WD My Book for Mac.

I can reboot and get the drive to come back online and work for a few hours or days, but this error always happens again.

First Aid from Disk Utility will run and fix a few things and say everything is fine.

Return the drive Im running a clone on a WD Passport without any issues.

Seems to have started when I upgraded to Sierra (10.12.1).

Ive also noticed when this occurs that the drive contents are empty (in Finder).

My Book is also unresponsive in WD Drive Utilities (does nothing when running drive status check) and Disk Utility.

Additionally, I deleted the following that were not removed by the uninstall program.

After a few hours, I could not access My Book with Finder (no Backups.backupdb folder).

The drive becomes randomly blank and unusable to Time Machine - If I eject the drive and reconnect it all is well again.

I do like having the Drive Utilities installed as I have a MyBook pro connected and like to keep an eye on its health.

Perhaps Ill uninstall and then reinstall the apps to see if that works.

And will try again to backup, if that doesnt help Ill remove the WD Utils and see if it makes a difference.

I did have the problem characterized and it wasnt just the backup disk all but one of my WD drives.

Then I tried your solution, and it worked Ive tried all the permutations, and the problem seems to be gone.

Time Hine Couldnt Complete The Backup To My Passport For Mac Does Not

If you look at its website the required OS for mac does not go beyond OSX 10.11.

WD software has not been updated for OSX 10.12 yet.

I was running this backup without any problem until I up graded my Mac Book Pro to OSX to 10.12.

From that moment the WD back up stopped working.( I can still see my earlier backups) WD should provide an update driver the latest Mac OSX i.e 10.12 and later.

I configured it as a 6TB RAID 1 then I used Disk Utility to partition it into two 3TB partitions, one of which is now my Time Machine backup for my 3Tb Retina 5k iMac.

In either method of connection, backups fail as noted by the OP.

This is supposed to be compatible with Sierra 10.12.

Meanwhile, Apple has released High Sierra and there is no indication WD has a compatible software package in the Downloads menu.

Still on Sierra 10.12.6 and using a late 2010 Macbook Pro, I installed the 8317 updates and tried to run a backup on Time Machine.

The only difference from the previous inability to make a backup is that Time Machine is not indicating any backup occurred, but the usual error message failed to pop up as well.

A popup error message appeared that the disk was not ejected because one or more programs may be using it.

Since you posted your solution, however, on 8317 WD released a new version of the utilities and security software, so I attempted using that before attempting your solution.

Time Machine Couldnt Complete The Backup To My Passport For Mac