OK - I give up

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I’ve been trying to get a mycloud drive working for about a year top move away from dropbox. It seems to work ok with my android phone and tablet and sometimes my macs, but my win10 machines just have all kinds of problems. I finally was able to reliably connect to the drive by canceling the media serving - if that really fixed it, I don’t know. But even though I can see the drive and my shares, it is painfully slow. I am using a GigE network with just an intervening switch and I am getting about 155 bytes per second. I can type faster than that I think. I’ve tried everything and that’s about the best it gets. I don’t understand why someone like WD, with all their storage experience, can’t make a linux cloud drive. This is beyond me.

So I guess I’m going to strip the drive out of it and build my own cloud because mycloud isn’t for me anymore.

now it is down to 0 bytes per second. 0. How can you have 0 bytes per second?

Jerry

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some more info:

  1. I can always get to the UI from win10 by going to the drive’s IP address 192.168.1.183
  2. I can always ftp to it and get decent performance. FTP has its own issues though and it isn’t good for casual uploading and sharing files.
  3. the android apps are working ok. They connect reliably.
  4. sync isn’t working on the macs. I get an error notification but can’t find it to figure out how to correct it after it pops up.
  5. I think killing media sharing is really what allowed me to connect. I had added all the SMB stuff, turned off the firewall, etc.
  6. the sync drive seems to connect well and give me decent performance on the macs. I can drop things on the drive, etc. but I keep getting sync errors and I think that means that the data isn’'t getting synced to other computers? Is there a log I can look at?
  7. I can “net use * \192.168.1.183 /user:jerry pwd” now (after turning off the media streaming) and get a virtual drive but the performance is horrid from all computers. Even trying to browse the drive doesn’t work. Many times the win10 machines will crash windows explorer over and over. Not something you want to have happen when you are saving a file. I’ve given up trying to save directly to the drive. Must have been something wrong with me to try it with a music score I was working on for three hours. But it worked once, really it did…
    8)the UI is painfully slow to update. once I get to the drive, I can see the shares, users, etc pop up but it takes forever.

Maybe I have a problem with the drive itself. I’ll have to see if I can scan it. I think the big problem was related to having media streaming turned on (on the drive). there are notes about killing the twonky share but I could never find it. I finally just turned off media sharing with the switch through the UI and then the win10 boxes started connecting.

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4)in addition to #4 above, I found the WD button on top of the mac status bar so now I can see the notifications. It says it couldn’t sync certain files. So what does that mean? when I dropped the file into the mycloud virtual drive, did it actually get to the mycloud drive or not? Is it backed up on the mycloud unit? how can I tell?

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So I downloaded an Owncloud appliance. It took about 10 minutes to get it to boot using Oracle’s (where I work) virtual box and I now have a perfectly working and syncing cloud. I’m going to strip the drive out of the mycloud box and put that behind my server.