How do I stop MyCloud scanning my many, many research files?

there is additional photo scanning / thumbnails beside twonky. this is used to the WD photos & WD my cloud apps. If you don’t use either of these and are even a little bit comfortable using SSH in Linux you may want to disable these

to put them back later just change stop to start & disable to enable

these stop the current processes

/etc/init.d/wdmcserverd stop
/etc/init.d/wdphotodbmergerd stop

these prevent them from restarting at boot

update-rc.d wdphotodbmergerd disable
update-rc.d wdmcserverd disable