Constantly blinking green light

[nairb]

Thanks Derm, I discovered that feature this weekend and turned it off.

BTW I saw in the "Remote Access" tab under "Advanced" there is a button to rebuild the photos database. Perhaps your media server/photo database got corrupted when you hit the power off, it might be worth a try.

I think I was a bit hastly myself in doing a factory reset, it took me about a week to get everything back in order again but it was a good learning experience! You might want to just the mybook continue running for another few days and see if it settle down, perhaps the database rebuild might help?

[aryobimo]

Hi guys, this my first post, but i just had the same experience. I bought my MyBookLive duo 6tb about a month ago. So far i've been moving small files, although in total it's about 100gigs or so. Yesterday i decided to move my video files (MKVs, AVIs), as this the reason i bought this as i ran aout of space. So i decided to move my files in one go (1.81TB worth of files). Windows said it'll take 23 hours, which Is not a problem for me as i know moving such amount of files will take time. 24 hours later i want to check the transfer, and then i found that my computer can not detect my drive, and the drive is blinking green. The network is visible in the windows network but that's about it. I can't access it. The wd software dashboard can not access it. Tried to double click it and the browser said it can not establish connectiom to the server at the ip address. Nothing works. I was thinking to shut it down but i'm worried i would lose all my data. I dare not resetting it thinking it'll wipe out the data. i've had twice crashed hard drive experience, bot with wd drive so i'm traumatic. Please...please....anyone...i beg you...shed some enlightment of what i should do. Cables are bramd new gigabit and my other NAS (buffalo casing with 2 wdc green 2TB) connected just fine. i live in south east asia (Indonesia) so customer support is not reliable. I tried shutting down my computer and pull the cable and then yellow light blinking instead of green. What frustates me is that the wd software can not detect it so diagnosis is impossible. The WD quick view says my usage is 0% and temperature is unknown. I'm worries this would third time the charm WD drive fail me... Please help....

[Harhem73]

I am a recent owner of a mybook live duo too recently. I have the same problem. Once every user of my mbl is shut off, the green led in the front of the device will blink every 20 seconds, and never goes to standby (blue). Last week I did a reset to factory defaults, lost all my data, but hey...... BLUE led again after 10 minutes inactivity!! Now, 1 week later again, after putting some data back on my device......... Same problem again.... It never falls in standby (blue), just only green, with a blink in every 20 seconds. It worries me that WD doesn't come up with a proper solution. I thougt I was the owner of a high quality piece of equipment from a recommended brand....... Now i end up plugging out the device every time i won't use it for some time because there seems to be some kind of bug that WD refuses to aknowledge and help solve.....

[nairb]

There are two things you could try:

1. if you don't use the DNLA player or iTunes, you can turn off the media player (its somewhere in the Settings section I think?) This seemed to work for me as the media player then wasn't constantly updating its media library.

2. Another thing might be your router, my router was setup by default to do DHCP updates (for IP address?) once an hour or half hour, which was constantly waking up my MBL, I switched that to do it once a day and my MBL goes into sleep (blue light) much more regularly now.