Western Digital My Passport Ultra for Mac User Manual - Page 15

Unlocking the Drive, With the WD Security or WD Drive Utilities Software

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Locking and Unlocking the Drive ▪ Locks the drive when you shut down your computer, disconnect your drive, or your computer goes into the sleep mode ▪ Requires you to type your password to unlock the drive when you restart your computer or reconnect your drive, UNLESS you selected the Enable auto unlock for this computer... check box when you created your password Unlocking the Drive After you have created a password to help keep others from accessing the files on your drive, unless you selected the Enable auto unlock for this computer... check box, you will have to type your password to unlock the drive whenever: ▪ You shut down and restart your computer ▪ You disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer ▪ Your computer exits the sleep mode You will have to do this even if you do not have the My Passport Ultra for Mac software installed on your computer. In each case, the WD Security software replaces the desktop icon for your My Passport Ultra for Mac drive with the WD Unlocker virtual CD (VCD) icon: The WD Unlocker VCD provides the WD Drive Unlock utility that you can use to unlock the drive. Or, you can use either the WD Security or the WD Drive Utilities software to unlock the drive. With the WD Security or WD Drive Utilities Software Whenever you shut down and restart your computer or disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer, starting either the WD Security or WD Drive Utilities software displays the Unlock Drive dialog: This happens either: My Passport Ultra for Mac 11 User Manual

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Locks the drive when you shut down your computer, disconnect your drive, or your
computer goes into the sleep mode
Requires you to type your password to unlock the drive when you restart your computer or
reconnect your drive,
UNLESS
you selected the
Enable auto unlock for this computer...
check box when you created your password
Unlocking the Drive
After you have created a password to help keep others from accessing the
files
on
your drive, unless you selected the
Enable auto unlock for this computer...
check box,
you will have to type your password to unlock the drive whenever:
You shut down and restart your computer
You disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer
Your computer exits the sleep mode
You will have to do this even if you do not have the My Passport Ultra for Mac
software installed on your computer.
In each case, the WD Security software replaces the desktop icon for your My
Passport Ultra for Mac drive with the WD Unlocker virtual CD (VCD) icon:
The WD Unlocker VCD provides the WD Drive Unlock utility that you can use to
unlock the drive. Or, you can use either the WD Security or the WD Drive Utilities
software to unlock the drive.
With the WD Security or WD Drive Utilities Software
Whenever you shut down and restart your computer or disconnect and reconnect the drive
to your computer, starting either the WD Security or WD Drive Utilities software displays
the Unlock Drive dialog:
This happens either:
Locking and Unlocking the Drive
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