Backup from an HDD to MyCloud through my laptop using Smartware eats up my laptop's SSD storage!

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Hi There,

I am creating a continuous backup from an HDD connected to my Laptop via USB to My WDMyCloud using SmartWare but it stopped since it filled up my laptop’s SSD completely. I supposed that my laptop was just being used as a bridge between

my HDD and MyCloud but somehow it’s storing information in my SSD.

Can someone please explain why this is happening and how to solve it?

I am using my HDD for all my pictures and I use photoshop to modify them and I want to have a continous back up on MyCloud.

Thank you in advance for the help!

Tuco

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Hi there, have you checked the properties on the folders to see which folder has the most data to verify?

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Thank you for your reply. I have gone through my C: drive folders to see which are the large folders that are saving back up information and I found the folders from my exyernal HDD that I am trying to back up on MyClaoud. They are being stored in

C:\Windows\CSC\v2.0.6\namespace\10.0.0.10\SmartWare\WD SmartWare.swstor\WS03GAGW7\Volume.87a…

I can see all that have been saved so far but heay are encrypted since I cannot see the actual content of the files.

Does this mean that my computer will be saving large amounts of back up data? Do i have to plug in my external HDD directly to MyCloud and try to back up from there? Is this possible?

Thank you again

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Hi Again,

Does anyone know why when I start making a back up for my external HDD to MyCloud using my laptop, do the files are saved in C:\Windows\CSC which is usually where the offline files are stored? It does not make sense because now I ate all my internal SSD memory and the back up was not even completed.

Please help,

Thank you

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I think you wl get more answers from a dedicated Smartware forum … http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-Software/bd-p/smartware

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Thank you so much Jamalaya, I’ll check that out.