On 2023-10-30 02:47, David T-G wrote:
Hi one more time, all --
...and then David T-G home said...
...
% In the end, he just took it back and gave me another drive, so I never % got to poke more at this. He did confirm, though, that he only plugged % it into his Windows desktop at home, so it isn't really Apple. Maybe the % WD developers like Macs ;-) [snip]
The little drive was full, so he banged around and finally remembered his password after remembering that, yes, it was encrypted, so he gave it back.
:-D
I went for some more targeted googling and got a few hits. The short form is
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip # 15.1 had 10.x instead of 21.x sudo zypper in python3-devel # for Python.h file sudo python3 -m pip install wdpass # magic :-) script # plug in drive here wdpass --unlock --mount # provide password as prompted
Interesting. Maybe we should have that little tool, or another, to the distro.
and we're now shoveling data. Yay!
Thanks again for the help and pointers :-)
:-D
:-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))