MAC - How do you power down MyCloud NAS?

[Bennor]

@David_White

I need instructions for mac

If the WD Quick View program won’t see the My Cloud, first troubleshooting step is to uninstall the software. Then reboot the computer, then reinstall the WD Quick View program and see if it recognizes the My Cloud and will shut it down.

WD Quick View for Mac: https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=183&lang=en

SSH is universal. One can use their favorite search engine to learn more on how to use SSH and issue SSH commands for their operating system. For example…

How to SSH on Mac with the Native SSH Client

More on using SSH to issue the shutdown command for second gen v2.x single bay My Cloud units:

How to safely shutdown MyCloud

There IS a shutdown script on the v2.x single bay My Cloud. It is: /usr/local/modules/script/shutdown.sh See the following posts from the thread in my prior post that indicates it DOES appear to work to some extent. Another method using SSH: There is also discussion of unhiding the code in the CSS file that hides the shutdown option from the v2.x single bay My Cloud Dashboard in that Safe Shutdown thread.