This has got to be the most valuable thread throughout these My Cloud forums. Thank you, Ralphael and Chyre, for these tips. I just bought a My Cloud and spent several days of my life trying to figure out why, after transferring a modest iTunes library (~40,000 music tracks, plus a handful of movie files), the drive was constantly grinding away, as if it were trying to mill peppercorns. All of the album artwork images buried in with the song track files were being indexed…My first transfer attempt slowed to a tiny trickle data long before it was even close to finishing. I started over again, this time making sure that all media serving was switched off before starting any transfers. Doesn’t looked liked that stopped any of the indexing/thumbnail making. So now I’m on round three, having wiped the drive yet again, but fortunately I found these tips before starting the transfer again.
I have a Mac and feel comfortable using Terminal’s command line interface for small things when I need to. But I don’t really know how to work with Linux, and in general I avoid following command line advice I find on forums unless I know as clearly as I possibly can what those commands are going to do. I’ll figure out how to SSH into the My Cloud’s brains with my Mac, but help me understand this. Once I’m there (any particular directory?), if I enter:
chmod 644 /etc/init.d/wdmcserverd
followed by:
chmod 644 /etc/init.d/wdphotodbmergerd
then that will stop (for good) all this nonsense with the thumbnails and the .wdmc directories. I can enter those and then get the h3ll out. Is that correct? (I don’t give a d@mn about the built-in iTunes and DLNA servers.)
find . -name .nflc_data
find . -name .wdmc
find . -name .twonky
and
find . -name .nflc_data -exec rm -rf {} \;
find . -name .wdmc -exec rm -rf {} \;
find . -name .twonky -exec rm -rf {} \;
are for searching for and deleting, respectively, previously created cr@p files (not globally, but within whatever directory I’m currently in). Right?
Since I’m starting over with a fresh transfer after erasing the My Cloud, I probably don’t have to worry about any housekeeping, and the previously mentioned chmod commands will prevent me from needing to housekeep in the future.
Not sure if this thread is still watched, but before I mess around with SSH and possibly void my warranty, I’d be grateful if you could help me make sure I understand what I’m doing.
Thank you!!!
