I upgraded my macbook to Yosemite today and when i try to transfer a file to my WD TV LiveHub device it will do so up until the end when it says: The operation can’t be completed because the item “…” is in use. (… being the file). But the file is not in use and I would expect it to give this error at the beiginning of the transfer not at the end.
Welcome to the WD community. Have you tried to unmap and remap the Live Hub on your map? If possible also try to transfer files from another device/PC on your network.
I’m not a Mac/Apple user … but i remember people having problems with “Mavericks” (and most probably applies to Yosemite) something about SMB/SAMBA configuration,
The solution under the second link? Would that be the third link? I’m having the same issue as you were and I just need to know which solution will work best. Anything I need to do sepcifically? Thanks for your help.
This is unbelievable. I had the same problem with Mavericks so I downgraded back to Mountain Lion last year. I for sure thought the problem would have been fixed this time around. Which link did you use specifically?
Hopefully we will find a fix for this. Or at least WD should do something for us Mac users.
I am not sure if this issue is isolated to Yosemite or Maverick. I have had the device even before Maverick and had the same problem then. I had tried everything I could think of, nothing helped. I cannot say it is worse with Yosemite, as there are times it copies files without an issue. But it is very unpredictable and I have stopped bothering with starting any transfer over my network now, as it has become so frustrating to find out that the files didn’t transfer after waiting for 20-25 minutes. I just copy them onto a USB stick and transfer them directly via the USB port on the device itself. Hope WD reads this and finds a fix soon.
Im trying to mount the hard drive attatched to my WDTV so I can drag and drop files from my mac to the hd.
Using the connect to server ciffs//wdtv workaround doesn’t work it just asks what I want to mount I pick the hard drive and then that window disapears.
Under shared it says WDTVlive and it just says connecting
This has not been solved. Regardless of the information contained within the links nothing actually works 100% all of the time. Again this is an Apple issue by the looks however due to WD’s lack of support for this device I’m afraid it will never work 100% unless they release a patch/firmware to bring it into line with Apple’s new SMB/SMB2 protocol implementation.
this copies all the files in my local folder on the mac to the Movies folder on the WD. For those wanting to understand the command:
cp is the copy command,
-n means don’t overwrite existing files,
-R copies to contents of all folders including subfolders and
-v gives you a readout of what is copying in the terminal window else it can look like nothing is happening if you are copying lots of large files.
This works really well for me as I dump all my movies and series in one folder on my mac and if I add new movies and run the terminal command it just copies the new ones over the the WD.
If you just want to copy indiviual files one at a time it easy to just type cp, then drag the actual movie file into the Terminal window and then drag the WDTV folder into the Terminal window to get the full paths correct.
Hope this helps some who may still be experiencing the issue…
Thanks very much southafricanrob…this WORKED…couldn’t get anything else to fly…you are the 1% out there that make the Internet a positive informative place…cheers
I dunno if you guys still having the issue but I solved it in another (I think more robust) way:
I had the issue but little bit different: I was able to login from the finder with the admin user but not with a normal user.