I just bought one with the only purpose of using it as a backup for family pictures taken with the mobile phone. And I am really dissapointed.
My laptop runs Ubuntu, so first dissapointment is that software is only for Windows and Mac.
Second try was to try to connect to the device connecting it via USB, but I have read that it doesn’t work that way.
So I managed to connect via network share, and now I can move files but at a very very slow rate via Wifi. Also, if I connect the mobile phone to my laptop, I cannot move files to the drive. I first need to move them to a laptop folder and then to the NAS. I’ve read that I could connect directly the phone to the WD My Cloud, but then I need the app to transfer files…
My question is:
Is there a way to move files directly from my Android mobile phone to the WD My Cloud in Ubuntu at a good rate? I cannot beleive that such a simple operation can be so hard to do it.
[edit: my apologies for this post; I was in a particularly grumpy mood last night, and saw only a series of somewhat unfounded criticisms. Hopefully, the links should help you use and understand your MyCloud]
I just bought one with the only purpose of using it as a backup for family pictures taken with the mobile phone. And I am really dissapointed.
You can use the free Android WD Photo app and the free Android My Cloud app to backup photos taken on an Android device to the WD My Cloud.
You can use a file manager program (like the free ES File Explorer) on the Android to copy the Android device contents direcctly to the WD My Cloud network attached storage without going through a PC.