WD MyCloud Shutdown option

[Bennor]

@meijereh

Does anyone have a solution for this?

There are many past discussions on this shutdown issue that affects the second generation single bay My Cloud units. WD has known about the many complaints both in this subforum and in the Cloud Ideas subforum for years but for what ever reason WD will not re-enable the shutdown option in the My Cloud Dashboard for the V2.x single bay My Cloud.

https://community.wd.com/search?q=shutdown%20category%3A107

https://community.wd.com/t/bring-back-the-shutdown-button-to-the-my-cloud-dashboard/177758

One can use the forum search feature (magnifying glass icon upper right) to find those many past discussions:

https://community.wd.com/search?q=shutdown%20category%3A105

The workarounds to this issue are to use the WD recommended method for shutting down the My Cloud using the WD Quick View program. Or use a web browser hack to trigger the hidden shutdown button on the My Cloud Dashboard. Or to use SSH to issue the shutdown command. By using SSH one may be able to setup a script on their computer to issue the command when that script is run.

How to Shut Down a My Cloud Device

Instructions to Shutdown a My Cloud

Safe shutdown

I have a WD 4TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage running firmware 2.10.310. I want to know how do I properly shut down this device. I have gone into the Dashboard SETTINGS - UTILITIES but all I see is a reboot option. I have also tried using the drop-down for my user profile and once again only see a reboot option. What am I missing here? How am I supposed to properly shut down this device?

Safe shutdown

Hello all, The following are instructions on how to install a user script manager and the custom script I put together that makes the hidden button on the My Cloud web interface visible. Setting up a script manager and installing a script should be quick and easy. It is basically as follows: Install a user script manager. This is just a browser add-on that enables the use of custom-made scripts. It is the same process as installing any other add on (like an ad blocker). The process is detai…

Safe shutdown

Any chrome browser will do. Log into the My Cloud dashboard. Go to the “Settings” Page. Select “Utilities” on the left panel. As you can see there is a “reboot” button but no “shutdown” button. The “shutdown” is actually hidden from you, but you can still manually call shutdown with some javascript code! This is what typing “javascript:dev_shutdown();” in the search bar does. It’s effectively the same as clicking the hidden “shutdown” button (trust me on this). Note: “javascript:dev_shutd…