FreshJR
November 30, 2013, 9:27pm
1
Lets say I have two shares
/Mycloud/Share1
/Mycloud/Stare2
if I drag files from share 1 to share 2, windows starts reading the files on share 1 and copying them over to share 2.
Is it possilbe to just move the files instead of this copy/read operation, just like what happens within individuals shares?
pherce
November 30, 2013, 9:32pm
2
Are you dragging from the My Cloud desktop app or network shares? I just got my NAS today so I’m still learning, but if the desktop app doesn’t support move then check out robocopy or richcopy.
FreshJR
November 30, 2013, 9:49pm
3
I am using window explorer and just browing the drives network shares, with the two shared folders open side by side.
If the operation is within one share, the dragging the file will move the file without the read/copy operation.
Example:
dragging
\\MyCloud\Share1\File.zip
to
\\MyCloud\Share1\Documents\
will result in
\\MyCloud\Share1\Documents\File.zip
but if it from two different shares this is what happens:
dragging
\\Mycloud\Share1\File.zip
to
\\Mycloud\Share2
will result in
\\Mycloud\Share1\File.zip
\\Mycloud\Share2\File.zip
and the whole time consumping read/write process.
Hope that clears it up.
pherce
November 30, 2013, 10:11pm
4
I just tried with the desktop client and it moves the files. http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?wdc_lang=en&fid=wdsfMyCloud
Get the “WD My Cloud Desktop for Windows” and use that.
FreshJR wrote:
Lets say I have two shares
/Mycloud/Share1
/Mycloud/Stare2
if I drag files from share 1 to share 2, windows starts reading the files on share 1 and copying them over to share 2.
Is it possilbe to just move the files instead of this copy/read operation, just like what happens within individuals shares?
The best way is to use an sftp client like WinSCP. Gets it done within no time. Check my thread here:
http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/How-To-Move-large-volumes-of-data-within-MyCloud/m-p/633997