Use WD My Book Live 2TB with 4 persons at different places like a local network-drive?

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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Hello.

We are 4 persons working at different places and want to use a network drive like WD My Book Live 2TB
to share our office-files (*.DOC, *.XLS, *.TXT …) and access and modify these files.
Now we have the following questions:

  1. can we assign different rights to certain folders (some folders used by all of us others only by two must

be invisible and not accessable for the others) ?

  1. if we copy files between local and network-drive will the original date be kept or changed to the date of the copy ?

  2. if person 1 opens a XLS-table on the network-drive and then person 2 also wants to open/modify this file,
    does person 2 recognize that someone els opened the file for writing and person 2 can only read in that case ?

  3. can we assign drive-letters to the network-drive and then handle the files on it comparable to a local drive,
    e.g. also using commanders like Total Commander for copy files, compare files, pack files on the network-drive ?

I hope that someone can help us.
Thanks in advance

Ottmar

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  1. Yes, just go to the dashboard and click on share and you will see the options.

  2. The files copied to the my book will have a new date.

  3. A pop-up will appear letting the second person now that he/she only has read access to the file.

  4. Havent’t used Total Commander before, but yes you can map the my book with any drive letter.