Making an external USB drive part of the Public Share system

Generally when you connect a USB drive to the My Cloud, it will have the “Media Serving” setting enabled automatically which should trigger the My CLoud Twonky DLNA server to scan then add the external USB drive’s content that are supported by Twonky to the DLNA server media content pool. Scanning may take some time depending on the drive’s media contents.

You should be able to get the media contents to show up in same folder directory as “\Public\Shared ” that the MY Cloud has by recreating the same directory structure on the external USB drive and moving content to those folders. Generally however it is not recomened (see the [FAQ] Twonky DLNA Media Server Setup & Use) to use the same “\Public\Shared ” folder structure that the My Cloud uses. Rather create seperate folders  and move the media contents out of the “\Public\Shared ” folders into the other folders.