I transferred files from my computer by mistake to the public share folder. How do I move these files out from the public share to one of my private share folder?
Cut and paste?
ssh, with mv is faster. 
The easy way for end users is just to cut and paste though.
Long explanation for the above answer:
The MyCloud is a linux box underneath. Linux is pretty savvy about how it handles moved files on the disk-- instead of laboriously copying all the sectors again, it just updates the filesystem tree’s inode structure so that the handles for those files show up in the new spot, and leaves the data on the physical volume right where it is. Using the command line utility [mv] invokes this behavior, and the move will literally take just a few seconds, if that. This requires you to be actively administering the box over ssh though, which is something outside the skillset of most users. It requires you to know how to use linux’s command line, which is historically rooted in unix administration. It is a whole other world from windows administration. Basically, you log into the box, and start running commands directly on it, over the remote shell. This is the FASTEST way to do the move.
Instead, the obvious ways of dealing with the MyCloud is to mount both shares, and move from one to the other. This will do a full laborious copy, then recursive delete operation. (Source is copied to new destination, old source is then deleted.) This is significantly more slow than the direct administration method, but is easy and straightforward for all users. This is the EASIEST way to do the move.
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