Installing FUSE exFAT on My Cloud First Gen?

@Bennor Thank you so much for the reply. I have just read about the apt update issue in another post so I did assume that recompiling the firmware was going to be my only option. You have confirmed my suspicions so thank you for that.

I am getting fab transfer speeds on my network from my SSD attached to my laptop to the My Cloud so the problem isn’t really in need of messing with OS for especially after your advice! I am using WinSCP to compare etc but thanks for the link to the Free File Sync, that’s really useful.

I have resisted updating to the 4.x firmware. As you can see from my only other post from 2015 it did not go well…Can access dashboard (just) but mutiple errors after latest firmware update I never really got an answer from WD why I had such issues so it has just been left as is.