Oh no after a day of figuring out what to do, there is nothing at the link provided!

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This FAQ page used to be sticky, but , in their wisdom, WD decided not to make it sticky again after a recent forum replacement.

WD - Frequently asked questions

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It contains what i’d suggest is the definitive guide to disabling the wdmcserverd etc functions:

Hidden .wdmc directories created by mcserver and photodbmerger and the deletion of them

Although I have been very very happy with my WD Cloud device, I am extremely disappointed in the amount of tweaking that I had to do in order to smooth out my purchase. Since I am a professional photographer, I have well over a million photos on the 4TB MyCloud along with a large collection of mp3’s, movies, ebooks and much more. When I owned a WD Live, the device was constantly indexing and now that my photos are also on the same device, I would get no response from the device because of WD co…

/etc/init.d/wdmcserverd stop
/etc/init.d/wdphotodbmergerd stop
# to keep it from restarting after a reboot 
update-rc.d wdphotodbmergerd disable
update-rc.d wdmcserverd disable