PASSPORT RED IXONS PASSWORD PROTECTION AND

Passport Red Ixons Password Protection And

I don't have TM hard drives permanently attached to the computer, although I have in the past. I manually tell TM when to backup, which is usually when something important has been added to the computer(s). Just activate password protection and set yourI have four drives using Time Machine and the icons don't change color, although I'm not using El Capitan. Password Protection with Hardware Encryption The My Passport Ultra for Mac driveвЂ™s built-in 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption with WD Security software helps keep your content private and safe.

Sorry I couldn't offer better help.Yes, the drive is Western Digital, with a label 'My Passport for Mac'. Since I haven't had your problem, perhaps it is El Capitan-related. Hard Drives WD Red SATA HDD Western Digital Terabyte Serial ATA.I do think that TM is taking a long time to finish your backup. WD My Passport Essentials Icon, WD My Passport Red, red Western Digital external.

Maybe it's a bug? Dunno.All you're *actually* doing is cut-n-pasting the *ICON* from the amber version to the green version. I ran a search on the question, and other mid-2011 iMac owners in discussion boards post the same question. It's just a little annoying, to always see that icon amber on my desktop. The backups don't take as long now, as initially. It immediately went into a backup, and has been doing them automatically, since.

I copied the green color to the icon. To see if TM is working, you either have a good enough memory that you would notice if the menubar icon hasn't changed to active for a while or you just click on it from time to time to check for the time of the last backup.Backups are successfully occurring. But I wouldn't recommend this, as TM might have problems despite the icon having the right colour. If you use the colour of the icon as a check whether TM is working, then it is not solving the problem. If you use the colour of the icon as a help in not accidentally ejecting the Time Machine drive, then copying the icon is a valid workaround.

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