My EX4 updated it’s firmware overnight.
the only problem is that I was copying a lot of data to it overnight.
It SEEMS like maybe the data copy finished first…
How does the EX4 decide it is a ‘safe’ time to update?
I know I could set it to manual firmware updates, and it’s a rare day I am copying data all night, but auto updates are handy - as long as… i understand how the device itself decides that ‘now’ is a good time.
Anybody know if it actually makes a decision based on usage/activity, or if it just checks the time of day? (Mine seemed to do it pretty much exactly at 3am.
I’m pretty certain it is not doing any sort of traffic / load balancing operation checks.
I personally would never allow mine to update automatically, too many things can go wrong. (What if its in the middle of a thunderstorm and you lose power to your house?) I always download the file to my local PC and upgrade manually, that way I can be certain there will be no problems.
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of course.
Silly me for expecting some common sense in an ‘auto update’ regime.
It was at least at 3am - when all computers naturally have a sleep and never do ANY work. 
I’ll have to run a full check of filecounts and stuff now.
Use goodsync if you dont have any other software
it works prety good
