Gen 1 Mycloud Mirror transferring files from Android to Windows - Post WD Shutdown Jan 2022

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud Mirror
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Hello Everybody,
With the upcoming changes to these “Legacy Devices” (funny how legacy devices are < 6 years old) that will disable our Gen 1 mycloud mirrors and Gen 2 in 4 more years) - I have a few questions.

  1. Will it be possible to still transfer photos from an Android Phone to MyCloudMirror after “they” stop the mycloud service in Jan 2022 without using a paid service e.g. WD2go ? If so how - what settings do I change in mycloudmirror, is there already a manual?

  2. Assuming #1 is possible. Will it be possible to setup external access capability to the MyCloudMirror files, e.g. using port forwarding.in the router.

  3. Will WDsync still work, since it uses apps & wd software. If not, is there a working alternative that can read the MyCloudMirror.

I just want my product to continue to work the way I use it currently, and it appears that even simply copying files from my phone to the my cloud mirror will be broken (since the phone app will not work). I turned off the cloud service under setting and files will not transfer (when my phone is within and using my network).
Thank you,
William

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  1. Yes, provided both devices (phone and MyCloud) are on the same local network, this functionality will be the same as before.
  2. Not easily. You may be able to this with a VPN and local port forwarding setup.
  3. Never used this functionality, so maybe someone else can help.

It’s not going to work the way it has before. It’s pretty much a local storage hard drive now.