Hi guys,
I am sorry to pose this (apparently basic) question but its puzzling me and if you have already seen some questions like this in WD community just give me the link and I will read about it.
I have a personal laptop (disk max out with music and movies), a professional laptop (some important docs) and an Android smartphone (16Gb maxed out with pictures and videos) and I have bought a MyCloud 3TB mostly to free up space in laptop and mobile but also to have it available everywhere.
When I’ve setup MyCloud, it began to sync music and movies from my laptop but if I delete those files from my laptop they will disappear from MyCloud (ie, they are mirrored there). What options do I have? Upload them and not sync?
This problem will also arise when I get to sync my Android smartphone. How should I setup my sync/upload? I need to free up space, not just protect my data mirroring it (and having it synced all the time) in a personal cloud.
Thanks in advance for your help, this is sucha basic question but I need to get it solved.
Greetings from Portugal.
Ricardo.
If you don’t want the MyCloud to mirror your working data stores, don’t use a sync program, use a file manager. The MyCloud is simply a networked attached HDD. Treat it as a data store like any other HDD, only accessed as a file server, rather than as a raw HDD.
Laptops: map the MyCloud into your file system (see p23 of the user manual, then read the rest of it). Then simply use a file manager to move files from your laptop to the MyCloud.
Android: use a file manager app to connect to the MyCloud (I use Cheetah Mobile’s File Manager). Then move all your files to the MyCloud.
Then, since you have moved your only copy of files from laptop/android to your MyCloud, sort out a backup of your MyCloud.
You don’t have to use WD’s software with the WD MyCloud; any decent backup software will support networked drives. You don’t need to use WD MyCloud Apps to access the device locally; just map the drive. For local access, you don’t need ANY WD software installed on your devices to configure it, or access it; the Dashboard runs on the MyCloud itself, and can be accessed via a web browser.
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