Western Digital My Passport Air User Manual page 10

3. Verify that the My Passport drive appears under DEVICES in the Sidebar area of your
Finder display:
Note: If the External disks check box is selected on your Finder Preferences dialog, the
My Passport icon displays on your desktop:
4. The first time you connect your My Passport drive to your computer, a message asks
if you want to use the drive to back up with Time Machine:
On Leopard and Snow Leopard
On Lion and Mountain Lion
Note: Currently the Encrypt Backup Disk check box only appears on computers using
the Lion or Mountain Lion operating system.
Depending on your operating system:
• On Leopard or Snow Leopard, proceed to step 5.
• On Lion or Mountain Lion, skip to step 6.
5. On Leopard or Snow Leopard:
IF you . . . want to use the drive with
the Time Machine software,
Do not
Do
THEN click . . .
Cancel and skip to step 8 on page 7.
Use as Backup Disk and skip to step 7 on
page 7.
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