I am currently trying to copy 131GB of iphoto library across to my cloud and since around 3pm (its now nearly 6pm) I have managed to transfer 572MB… and I have 25 days to go, my wifi is turned off and there is just my old hard drive and the WDcloud attached to the router, does anyone have any helpful ideas.
Hmm. Hi again Graham. Bad day in the orifice for you my friend. I am currently running a 102GB backup of my mac down a LAN connection and it’s looking for ten hours so there is clearly a serious problem! You mention an old hard drive. What interface are you using ie how have you configured this setup for the transfer?
- Hello again, Ok here goes, I have all my iphoto library backed on onto a My book essential hard drive, I dragged and dropped the file just after getting set up and the pulling of the hair has begun
I have tried to bring the Library back into the Mac but it just kept saying there was a file with the same name, I have no idea why as I couldnt find it and even changing the name of the file didnt help it just changed its name to the same I really hate technology!
Ok I am still not there yet with this. Please describe the layout and connections used. My guess is that you have a router. The mycloud is connected to the router by LAN. The mybook is connected via USB to the mycloud. The mac is connected via LAN to the router. Is this the case?
Ok sorry the Old drive is connected directly to the Mac the new cloud to the router on the ethernet cable the mac is directly plugged into ethernet too, I have cables coming out my ears, yesterday before I lost the will to live and pulled the plug on everything I tried directly plugging my old drive to the cloud via usb nothing happened well I say nothing I could not get the cloud to read it therefore nothing happened.
Ok Graham. I would try two things. Firstly connect the my book to the back of the my cloud as an additional drive and try the transfer. Secondly as you previously tried to copy into the mac was it into a specially created folder? Maybe make a new folder on the root of the mac hard drive called temp. Then copy into that and later from there to cloud. Like this as it will be a fresh folder you should avoid the “folder with same name” message.
will I crash the system if I now unplug the copying files
Sorry graham I just read u already tried the mybook into the cloud. Can you stop the transfer? You should be able to cancel it. Let’s face it in the 24 hrs it’s going to take now you could strip it and rebuild it lol!
Is your router gigabit by the way or 10/100?
I think it is a 10/100 as I looked at the speed on the hard disk earlier and it said 100t
Hmmm ok well you should expect a time of around twelve hrs unless something else is throttling it.
I have made a root file and it is saying estimating time but nothing is happening no byte nada
Hmmm… Let’s hope your mybook is still alive! Next thing to try is stop the transfer and reboot the mac then start again the transfer into the root folder. You should be able to copy across via USB in around ten hrs I would have thought…
I see that all of us are in the same boat!. I am transfering my files since Friday, This morning I started a secon batch of files, the size is 105 GB. it is 9:45 PM and is not even 50%. The estimated time to finish is 10 Hours, I need to go back to work before that and take my PC with me so don’t hava a clue when it will finish BTW my Ethernet connection speed acording to the “Local Area Connection Status” window is 1.0Gbps. I think that once i have all my files it will be ok but this data transfer is extremelly slow.
My time machine backup took approx ten hours as predicted at over 100GB. Graham - any update on your situation?
Ian
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