Apple's Passport? I think you mean Western Digital. Computer Icons Hard Drives Western Digital My Passport, western, text.I don't understand. Physical Description As shown in Figure 2, the My Passport Slim drive has:WD My Passport Essentials Icon, WD My Passport Red, red Western Digital external. If you want to use the drive with a Mac computer, see Reformatting the Drive on page 53 and Troubleshooting on page 54. Your My Passport Slim drive is formatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility with all updated Windows operating systems.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). And with up to 5TB1 of storage and a 3-year limited warranty, you get storage to rely on for years to come.I have four drives using Time Machine and the icons don't change color, although I'm not using El Capitan. Its modern metal design complements your Mac, and out of the box, it’s formatted for macOS and Time Machine compatibility.Then your WD drive icon will appear on your Mac’s desktop and you should then be fine to use your Mac drive. Finder Preferences Show External Disks. And check the option to show external disk. Then click on the general tab.
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. Not really solving or understanding the issue.Since the backups appear to work fine, I think the underlying issue is the Finder not properly applying (refreshing) the volume icon. 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. Edit groups outlook for macI copied the green color to the icon.
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