Access files via terminal on Mac to WD MycloudMirror

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud Mirror
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Hello

I’m trying to delete a LOT (I mean alot) of files.  Using finder on the Mac is very difficult unless I chose small chunks at a time, which will take a very long time.

I was hoping to connect in directly to the WD MycloudMirror via terminal and issue a rm *.* command or something like that.

I’m clueless on how to connect to the WD device

I tried ssh admin@xx.xx.xx.xx  but keep getting permission denied (using the same pw as when I log into the dashboard)

Any thoughts?

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you are in the wrong forum, I believe the mirror is very different then the plain mycloud

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Looks like the post has been moved.

I’m pretty sure the userid you should be using is “sshd,” not “admin” – and whatever password you assigned when enabling SSH.

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Tony

Thanks, that got me IN !!!

But I was expecting unix type commands to look around etc.  Help gives some commands, but none that I can tell to either list or delete

Since I posted this to the wrong forum, alot of time has passed and the deletions I was looking for are done.

But still would be nice to know how to maneuver around.

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It’s entirely linux, which pretty much is identical to any unix commands…

ls, rm, etc are all there…

Which commands were you trying that didn’t work?

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I believe I tried ls and it didn’t work

Correct. I just tried again, no luck.  As shown below, I type ls hit RETURN and nothing

root@WDMyCloudMirror root # ls

root@WDMyCloudMirror root #

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DeputyDawgAtl wrote:

I believe I tried ls and it didn’t work

 

Correct. I just tried again, no luck.  As shown below, I type ls hit RETURN and nothing

 

root@WDMyCloudMirror root # ls

root@WDMyCloudMirror root #

That’s because that directory is empty.  ;)

When you log in, you’re in your HOME directory (just like every other unix system) in this case, probably:

/home/root

… and that has nothing in it.

If the command didn’t work, you’d have seen something like

root@WDMyCloudEX4 root # ls
-sh: ls: not found
root@WDMyCloudEX4 root #
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Thanks… 

Makes sense…

But shouldn’t root have something?   

So what do I “CD” into to see where the files are on the WD?

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DeputyDawgAtl wrote:

But shouldn’t root have something?   

Why should it?  

DeputyDawgAtl wrote:

 

So what do I “CD” into to see where the files are on the WD?

cd /shares?

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THERE’s my files !!!

Thank You

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course it wont let me cd into the directory I want (itunes)

But you have been a great help

Thanks

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DeputyDawgAtl wrote:

course it wont let me cd into the directory I want (itunes)

Cut and paste your session text so we can see what’s going wrong.