I use a My Book LIve Duo and the WD Quick View app sat on my toolbar. When I used Windows 8.1 it was easy to copy files/folders from my My Book and tranfer them elsewhere. Since I now use Windows 10, the Quick View app doesn’t work and we’re apparently waiting for WD to issue an update. (I tried compatiblity mode unsuccesfully)
I can still access the My Book via the My Cloud app, but when I right click and select copy on a file or folder, that then doesn’t allow me to paste when I try to move the file/folder elsewhere.
What am I doing wrong?..and when will quick view be available for Windows 10!!!
I haven’t, only because I don’t want to lose them from my NAS! (I mainly use it to store my FLAC files for the Music Library in my Sonos system) I just want to occassionally share files with friends via eg Dropbox
Just tried it with a random file and it worked!!! Tried with a folder and it was transferred but converted to an empty zip file. So we’re getting there. Thanks again,
Probably trying to do it that way because I tend to stumble my way through these things!! Using File Explorer and accessing the NAS that way lets me copy and paste. So thanks for your help.
I was unable to cut copy paste the files on the files on WD Live. I read something about the mybooklive needed to be all caps " MYBOOKLIVE" etc and that did not work . I ttried a few other things that did not work.
I did
Go to MY PC
Right click on Mybook live and Open it rather than double click it.
It asks for your user name and password. After you sign in ( if you remember them ) the folders appear with a green handle.
You can open them and paste your files onto them.
Hope it works , It only took a few days ( and a few frustrated months in between ) to invent this wheel… Hope you dont have to.
This thread is scaring me. I just unboxed My Book and want to use it to copy files from my old system to my new system. Is it going to encrypt everything, rendering it useless??? I simply want to copy files to it, plug it into my new system, and drag everything onto the new system without any of the headaches noted above. Did I buy the wrong drive?