Set up questions

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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I have WIndows 8 and just got a My Book Live. I’d like to set it up for two people to auto-backup to it (other one is Win 7).

On Windows 8 I see you can setup File HIstory to a network drive, but it doesn’t seem to allow me to select any of the Shares on the My Book Live. Anyone know why this is and if there’s a way to get it working? I know only Win 7 Pro can upload to network locations.

I wanted each of us to upload to a different Share, however it appears the SmartWare software only allows you to upload to the SmartWare share location.

Also, I tried creating another user in the web config, was going to make 2 users and each have access to their own share, and SmartWare then said there were no writable partitions until I removed all users other than admin. Security isn’t really a concern, it’s fine if we can access eachother’s files (the device itself has a password), just trying to keep it clearly organized.

Is there any way to accomplish what I want, using WD software, Windows, 3rd party (free preferably) software, or some combination of those?

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Also, I tried mapping one of the shares as a drive in Computer, it shows as NTFS but can’t use it for File History. When I try (either via the Network shortcut or via the mapped drive) it says “We can’t add your network location. This location can’t be used to save your files. Try a different location.”

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Anyone have a suggestion?

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What do you mean by “Can’t use it for file history?”

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Nevermind, it seems to be available now! Previously there were not any subfolders within the Shares which WD created and I would get an error that I couldn’t use that each time. WD seems to have created a subfolder now and that will work. Thanks for the question or I wouldn’t have tried again!