Some files won't play from share, but will from direct usb connection

Welcome to the forums.

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce that bug (i.e.: I can copy or delete files from my net shares and the Live reacts just fine without having to reboot it – I do this all the time, in fact).  Now, I will say that I am not in the same folder on the Live at the time (that is, I need to either go out of the folder and then come back in or be in another folder for it to refresh but I don’t think that’s unreasonble).

I’m not saying it isn’t a problem in your setup, or that it may not be a problem with others, only that it doesn’t work that way for me – so we’d have to have more people test this out to find out exactly where the problem is (yeah, I know, WD ought to be doing this instead of us, but they don’t seem to have a lot of interest in net shares as a playing approach, even if a whole lot of us think that’s the best way to use this thing).

Perhaps others reading this can try this out in their system and report the results in this thread.