Please continue reading and look for solutions for solving read-only WD My Passport on Mac problem. I'm extremely frustrated because this drive is in a read-only mode, and I can't figure out how to change it! Any suggestion to fix this?' 'I have a WD My Passport 320GB external hard drive that I am trying to hook up to my iMac for the first time. However, many users complain their WD My Passport is read-only on Mac like the user below in WD community. Among those external hard drive categories, WD My Passport external hard drives are the most widely used ones. Its product line covers WD My Passport, WD My Passport Ultra, WD My Book, WD Elements, WD My Passport for Mac and more. Western Digital is one of the most popular hard drive manufacturers. If the WD My Passport read-only on Mac problem is caused by the NTFS file system, installing iBoysoft NTFS for Mac to edit, rename, delete the saved files and transfer files to the read-only WD My passport hard drive.

Summary: This guide introduces three common scenarios in which you might find your WD My Passport external hard drive read-only on Mac.