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I am tempted to try the WD SmartWare Uninstaller.app in the Extras folder, or, alternatively, just to drag all items to the Trash.
The 'What is this.html' file takes you to this site:įile:///Volumes/WD%20SmartWare/What%20is%20this.html
#Wd smartware app for mac windows#
If this is the case, the indications are that it might be impossible to get rid of.Īlso, here are screen grabs of the windows I opened after double clicking on the WD SmartWare icon on the desktop. (disable-%2 F-hide)-the-virtual-cd-(vcd)-for-windows-or-mac-osx-on-a Whilst not certain, I believe the SmartWare may be on a “virtual drive” if my understanding of the following websites is correct, especially as “WD SmartWare” now appears under Devices in the left hand pane of the Finder window since it showed on my desktop: And, no, I will not be buying another WD external HD anytime soon. At least this gave me the opportunity to investigate further before ejecting it, which is what I’ve done before. On opening the computer today the WD SmartWare icon appeared on the desktop again. Time Machine details may not be accurate.Īll volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 930.71 GB Disk used: 407.21 GBīackup size 930.73 GB < (Disk used 407.21 GB X 3) Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9 SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.4 - SDK 10.6 SupportīluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9 WD Time Machine (disk2s3) /Volumes/WD Time Machine: 999.37 GB (4.37 GB free) Report generated 13 September 2014 16:15:46 BST Don't know if these would have had any effect on things. The only WD item I can see is the plist under 'Launch Daemons' mentioned in my initial post.įollowing my last reply, I found two items remaining in my Downloads folder - WD SmartWare Installer.app and WD SmartWare Installer2.app - which I have placed in Trash.
#Wd smartware app for mac manuals#
Since supposedly “uninstalling” the app, clicking the icon results in a window containing seven items – DriveUnlock.app, Extras folder, User Manuals folder, Virtual CD Manager.app, WD SmartWare folder, WD SmartWare.app and a ‘What is this.html’ file.Īlso, from a reply to a query regarding WD drives on an Apple forum, it was suggested that if “” was present on your computer, then “you are using problematic utilities”. However, occasionally, a WD SmartWare icon will appear on my desktop for no reason, and not immediately after starting the computer. I decided to uninstall the SmartWare app and have checked that this no longer appears in my Applications folder. However, this was superfluous to me as I run Time Machine to a WD 1TB Studio external HDD, which is always attached to my iMac.
Opening it pulled up the WD SmartWare tabbed window and it went through the process of seemingly reading the hard disk and providing a graph-like readout of the different types of files. The new version of SmartWare seemed to enable me to backup my computer to a WD external drive. Neither of these has been connected since moving to Mavericks). (I did not want to find my other two older WD drives losing information. I, therefore, downloaded the up to date version of WD SmartWare, having read that this would fix “an issue related to reports of some customers, under certain conditions, experiencing data loss when updating to Apple's OS X Mavericks (10.9)”. Visit That website refers to PowerPC applications, of which, presumably, WD SmartWare was one.
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(It has been moved to the Incompatible Software folder).
This version of WD SmartWare is not compatible with this version of OSX. Having recently upgraded to Mavericks, the following message was appearing on starting the computer: