I have been playing around with my MBL for a while now… installed OwnCloud, Bittorrent Sync, upgraded twonky, h5ai index listing, featurepacks, and some optware… I see my box is tired of my playing with it, and I see it is becoming slower and never going to sleep… so I want to go back to step one, where there is only the plain latest WD firmware on it (which is the one I am using now [02.42.02-012])…
Is there a way to do this without loosing my data (pics, music, video and dox)?
Absolutely, the restore just resets some dashboard settings to default, it will not delete mods. The firmware update will write a clean OS to the drive and retain all your data and dashboard settings.
I was actually able to write down your old guide before they took it down I don’t even know how to thank you for it, my only concern is will I loose my data by rolling back or is it just the operating system files that are going to be affected??
Just the OS files, but you WILL have to recreate your users and share names in the dashboard to get access to the shares again. And if the shares remain in the dashboard but you can’t access the shares, rename the share and then rename it back.