Has anybody taken the plunge yet? I’m a bit busy at the moment to upgrade. There was also a new version of Smartware for Windows released yesterday that might be worth checking out for those having Smartware issues
It figures an update would come out now that I finally updated to 02.41.05-034 a few days ago.
On a side note, I think the drive is sending out restart emails instead of firmware update availaible messages. I was getting one once a week which is why I finally updated. I got another restart email today saying the drive restarted April 30th, when there’s no evidence of a restart.
Now on second attempt, and for second time stuck on “Upgrading (90%)”
I have a MyBookLive 2TB and am running Windows 7.
I have upgraded WD SmartWare to Version 2.0
I did change the name of the Drive a while ago which did upset iOS accessing the drive, so I am looking forward to the fix in this release, though Android simply breezes through to my files and photograph.
If I had a solution to improving the drive under Mac OS X I would post it in a heart beat, but unfortunately everything I’ve tried makes little to no difference.
Just chiming in that I did the update on my MBL and all went well.
Although I prefer updating from a file, I suppose this one was made an automatic update so there could be a more formal control of what level of firmware was currently existing. This one would presumably only proceed if the current firmware was “correct.”
In any case, I initiated the update from an alert message on the MBL which is accessed from a little icon on the top line of the Dashboard page. A Download pop-up screen appeared an it started at 6% and progressed to 100%. Then the pop-up changed to an Update screen which started at 10%, stayed at 60% for a while and then went to 90%. It stayed on 90% for a brief time and then went to a pop-up that said the update was successful and the MBL was restarting. A few minutes of a yellow LED on the MBL and then it went green and everything was back on.
After an hour or so at 90% I have used WD Quickview to shut it down, but when it comes back up it starts the firmware download and install again back up to 90%.
I will try changing the name back and starting again.
Any other ideas on what could be getting in the way?
In the great words of Scooby Doo “ruh ro Raggy”
You guys might want to PM Bill_S and see if you can get some logs sent to him and he can forward them on
I don’t want to do the firmware-update … is there a way to disable the automatic check, so that I don’t get the update-notification for my Drives (every week) ?!
¿Dónde puedo obtener la versión de Firmware que ya trae inluido el DLNA Media Server? En este momento tengo la versión MyBookLive 02.41.05-034 : Core F/W y esta versión aún tiene a TwonkyMedia como Media server.
Where I can get the firmware version already brings inluido the DLNA Media Server? At this time I have 02.41.05-034 MyBookLive version: Core F / W and this version still has as Media Server TwonkyMedia.