
MY BOOK ESSENTIAL
USER MANUAL
USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC
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6.
Type the password that you normally use to access the computer in the
Password
box and click
OK
:
7.
As prompted, when the installation completes, click
Ye
s to restart the computer:
8.
When the computer restarts, the
My Book icon now looks like this, where “
MY BOOK
” is
the name you assigned to the volume when you reformatted the drive for use with the Mac
computer:
Your
My Book drive is now ready to use as an enhanced-performance external storage
device.
Installing the WD SmartWare Software
To install the WD SmartWare software:
1.
Double-click the My Book icon and then double-click the WD SmartWare icon on the
screen that displays: