New forum user here so forgive me if there’s a post discussing this already. Have not found one or one that has the answer.
My issues is as follows:
I have an iMac with two hard drive partitions, one for Windows one for Mac. The Mac partition failed on me a couple of days ago and in it were all my photos (roughly 330 gigs). Rest of the files were not vital. I bought a WD My Cloud mirror 6tb device and was able to access these files and photos via the Windows partition of my Hard drive. I.e. I was able to boot to windows and then access the mac partition of the hard drive and from there upload those files to my WD device.
Now I’ve reinstalled OS X and am facing the following problem. Every single time I try to download a larger folder with either multiple folders in it or multiple files in it the download process just freezes up. I’m able to download single files one at a time from the device to my Mac partition. Naturally I’m using the Mac specific App to access my device.
Is there a way to download ALL of the files and folders in a single run by downloading the parent folder? If not then this is truly a horrendous product flaw. Downloading tens of thousands of photos one by one is just out of the question.
Yes, I’m using a wireless connection. The WD device is hooked up via ethernet to a Time Machine from Apple which is providing the Wifi.
More details on the issue, when I go to click and drag a parent folder folder from the WD App (e.g. a file named 2014 containing all my Lightroom 5 catalogues and photos from 2014) to my (e.g.) desktop I get a smaller window with a progress bar that is not moving at all and after a while (might take hours) a message “download failed” will pop up.
However, when I go deeper into the folder 2014 directory and try to download e.g. a smaller set of photos from, for example, a single day from 2014 it will download the folder to my desktop as ZIP files which I can then unpack.
When I repeat this process with multiple single files (I had some video files) within a folder I get a larger window with different types of progress bars for every single file and these progress bars do show the actual progress of the download. These are not packed into a ZIP file.
Edit 1.
It would seem that the problem occurs when I’m trying to download a parent folder which has folders and files in it. If a folder has just individual files in it the download seems to work somewhat ok…
