How to correctly Disconnect / Turn off Drive?

WD External and Portable SSD External SSD for macOS
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Thank you.

Hello,

I just bought a “My Book Studio LX External Hard Drive (3TB)” and have used the WD Smartware Software to put a password on the drive.  I am using the Firewire 800 cable/connection on my Macbook Pro running Leopard.

What is the proper way to shut down/disconnect the drive after use? Do I drag the drive to the garbage and then drag the WD Smartware Icon to the trash, or do I just disconnect the firewire cable after draging the drive to the trash, or am I suppsed to turn off the power in the back of the drive? What is the exact, correct process?

I am very concerend about this because my older My Book drive no longer mounts on my computer (different post and issue) and I want to make sure I never have this problem again. 

I greatly appreciate any response. 

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Ejecting the drive icon will be sufficient. Once ejected you can disconnect the drive.

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If you want, you only need to drag the drive’s Icon to the trash can, then it would be safe to disconnect the cables.

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Hi there - I cannot seem to delete from my hard drive when plugged into a mac?

It wont allow me, does anyone know why?

thanks, 

John 

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If you used the drive on Windows the drive will have read only permissions on a Mac. You can decide which operating system you want to use it or get an application like  NTFS 3G to use it on both.

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