Yosemite issue The operation can’t be completed because the item “....” is in use

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.

Hope someone can help with this!

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. 

Hi, thx for your quick reply.

What do you mean by  unmapping and remapping the Live Hub on my map?

cheers

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,

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495137?start=0&tstart=0

http://cammodude.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/os-x-109-mavericks-workaround-for-smb.html

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming/Can-t-connect-WDTV-SMP-to-my-iMac/td-p/622779

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming/Did-anyone-update-to-OS-X-Maverick/td-p/610715

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Thx!

I tried the solution under the second link and it seems to be working. I successfully transferred a file of 1,5 gig just now :slight_smile:

newworldmonkey,

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.

Hmm for some reason it worked once but it doesn’t anymore :frowning:

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 used this one:

http://cammodude.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/os-x-109-mavericks-workaround-for-smb.html

Not sure if you’re still having the same problem but this seemed to work for me:

  1. Connect WD media Hub

  2. Press (command + k)

  3. Enter: cifs://WDTVLiveHub._smb._tcp.local

Connect.

A new window should open.

Drag files/movies to this new window.

Hope this helps! Have a good one.

Hey NewWorldMonkey and Hayseuss…

Your solutions are really work for you ?

Hayseuss solution and ( http://cammodude.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/os-x-109-mavericks-workaround-for-smb.html) work only once :frowning:

The problem is more frequent with Yosmite than Maverick.

Thanks

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.

Has anyone come up with a soloution?

Im not really interested in sharing/streaming

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.

hi i am still having this issue too… anyone has a solution…

interestingly i managed to transfer 4 files of 200++mb to my WD wirelessly.

then i when i tried to trfr my movie… this error came out…

someone help with a definite solution pleaseeeee

Hi guys,

I use Terminal to copy files from OSX Mavericks to the WDTVLive Hub - works everytime.

cp -n -R -v /path/to/movie/folder/* /Volumes/WDTVLiveHub/Movies

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.

I solved it following the instructions on this link: Logging into a SMB file server multiple times with different usernames from one Mac | Der Flounder