I think that almost everyone would like to be able to set the maximum size for each share, here are a few examples...

 

1. Parents want unlimited share size(s), but for each of their kids they wish to limit the share size for each of them so that it doesn't get spammed with stuff that doesn't need to be there. I know a few parents would be very happy if their children's homework etc was stored on the HD rather than just their computer as a back up.

 

2. Freaks like me will want to set specific share sizes just to allow us to keep things organized and up together.

 

3. A lot of people have Macs and currently the timemachine will use up the entire drive, it is one heck of a hogger. Since Apple have yet to fix this, and may never do...this may be great for users so they can set a limit on their timemachine share.

 

I can think of loads of reasons why this would be a great feature, and to be honest it is the only feature (or rather lack of)  which is preventing me from buying myself one; though I know a lot of people who already own one or more of these, and therefore I am very interested in at least one for myself.

 

PS: It may be an idea to also allow some shared "No Limit", thus can use whatever free/usable space is remaining, but those with limits can only use up to the limit(s) set.

 

PPS: Might also be worth concidering whether or not to have share limits per user as well as per share. This could be a max limit for a user regardless of which shared they are using, or it could be a max limit for them within a specific share.

 

I think at the end of the day, I could be happy to create a share for each person and set a limit on those shares, leaving mine with 'No Limit'.

 

Many thanks,

 

Shane

Being able to mail a File & Folder Link from the WD2go app without the WD2go app installed on the recievers side.

 

A link generated that the receiver can click to access directly for stream or download in a web-browser as simple as Dropbox.

 

Today the share will only result in a broken confusing, disappointing & non-working link in the recievers web-browser making this function in WD2go app with such a potential totally unusable.

The storage setup on the N750 (and other N series routers) needs an option to have a read/write user and to also allow other users to read only.   Something like:

 

Storage access permission:
_ Public Share
√ User Account

 Username: SomeUser
 Password: MyPassword

√ Allow public read only access

 

-or-

Storage access permission:

Everyone: 

√ Read

√ Write

 

User Account (read/write):

 Username: SomeUser
 Password: MyPassword

I am not sure what mediacrawler does (I think it is indexing files for use by the remote access tools), but it's killing the CPU on the MyBook Live and severely degrades file I/O performance.

 

I started noticing that TimeMachine backups were never completing - even with very small changes to my local HDD.  Time Machine would sit forever trying to complete a 60MB (yeah, MEGAbyte) backup.  And this is running Gb ethernet between the MacBook and the WD MyBookLive (i.e. not wireless).  When I stopped Time Machine, I noticed that the HDD activity light on the MyBook Live would keep flicker forever.

 

So... I SSH'd into the box and ran 'top'.  Lo and behold, mediacrawler is using a huge amount of CPU and never stops running.  Sometimes it would help things to reboot the system - for a while - but eventually the drive gets back into the same state.  I removed the executable bit from the file's permissions (/usr/local/mediacrawler/mediacrawlerd) and restarted the MyBook Live.  The system runs much faster.  I will run some performance timings, at some point, but you folks have a problem with mediacrawler and system performance that needs investigation.

 

Thanks, Ken

I appreciate the market place and how adding advanced features to NAS devices is the "norm".  However some of us just need a dumb simple reliable NAS device.  So instead of going through each feature and asking to have individual features turned off or on, it would be easier and certainly simplier for end users if we had an option that said...

 

Check here to have device be simple NAS storage device.

 

Checking the box turns off all the nice and fancy features and lets the NAS device be just that.  A networked hard drive for storage space that clients can access as setup in user/shares sections.

 

Fancy is cool and all.  I can assure you there is a market for simple NAS storage.  Does not seem like it would be that hard to have both in one product.   If you want fancy, you don't check the box.  If you want simple, you check the box.

 

 

If you do not want to pay twonky company for its software update, at least start to develop an internal DLNA solution. There are some existing freeware LGPLed linux distribution in Internet: http://elinux.org/DLNA_Open_Source_Projects
I think no one is asking for real time transcoding on the cpu of wd's NAS: we need just a reliable solution that works with all current file containers (mkv, avi, mp4) and possibly with most common DLNA receivers (Xbox, playstation, some new tv set)

Details button, the little i in the bottom left, displays creation date which is referencing when that specific file was made, not when the picture was taken. The info is there in the details it's just mis directing. It's using the info of when the file was placed in its current location info. Which is useless to what the info would be used for. Cause most want to know when the photo was originally taken. Would be nice too to be able to view more details.

Hello All,

 

I have an idea for the My Book Live Duo software.

 

As we all know, if we want to enable web access to our devices, we have to login to the device from home and then add access, which goes through the WD servers.I think this setup is bad for the following reasons.

 

1) What if let's say WD goes out of business next year. How am I supposed to access my NAS?

 

2) The WD site is constantly giving me errors when I login to My Book from a remote PC Browser.

 

HTTP Status 404 - TCP relay failed - address for target domain not found

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type Status report

message TCP relay failed - address for target domain not found

description The requested resource (TCP relay failed - address for target domain not found) is not available.

 

Now, I know it's not my router doing this because 1) if I refresh the page, sometimes the site will load My Book properly, and sometimes it'll give me the same error and 2) I've configured port forwarding with other devices in the past without issue. The software for my iPhone also fails to load my drive more times than not.

 

I really like this product, but I'm starting to get aggitated over this issue. I hope someone here can either provide a fix or implement this idea in the near future because this product is coming real close to getting shipped back to new egg.

 

-Chris

 

 

 

The iTunes sharing is brkoen for MyBook World Edition II since iTunes version 10.4. It would be good idea to update the firmware of the device since iTunes sharing is a major USP for the drive.

 

Thanks,

Sumit

Why the mbl webpage password is never remembered by the browser? Did you need to add specific html code to do this?

Did you ever try to access the mbl webpage on an iphone or an ipad? The layout is messed up, the blue hint "dialog" covers parts of the functions, the aler notifications covers a large part of the screen. Since I think you will not ever do a mobile friendly webpage, Iwould like to have a way to disable clutter, such as hints and notifications.

Right now the only possibility is to provide accesses to users/friends to a specific folder in My Book Live. Let's call it Folder 1. These users/friends have automatically access to all the sub folders located in the folder 1 at the root of My Book Live let's call them File 1a, File 1b, File 1c,... However, it is not possible to provide different level of access at File 1a or File 1b or File 1c level... For example, if I do not want to provide access to my Friends to File 1b the only possibility is to put File 1b at the root level of My Book Live (same level than File 1). But it implies that I re arrange all my classification...

Add an option to automatically turn off the harddrive if it does not have a valid ip for more than a certain time (when the yellow led blinks).

I usually turn off the router at night and I would like to turn off the hard drive as well. Since there is no power button I should enter the webpage, login, and find the turn off button.

Add a way to remove or hide "Shared videos" and similar folders from the main public share

At least I cannot find how to change log-out time with MyNet 900 Central - is that adjustable in any way, or that's new bright idea for WD firmware programmers?

As I find all the three LANs (wired, 2,4GHz, 5 GHz) share the same address range (i.e. 192.168.1.x) rather than allowing 2/3 diferent address ranges (i.e. 192.168.1.x and 192.168.10.y) - I would welcome the latter. Reading MAC addresses on the WAN side, one the wired LAN side and on the WiFi LAN side is also very difficult (only one MAC listed on the box label).

Check the copy of SAFEPOINT and found the wrong name , because è,ò,à,ù in the filename are converted in something like cyrillic characters.

 

I need to fix this problem for my SAFEPOINT backup

 

Thanks Andrea Mornati

I use a WD MyBookLve at work but i was not able to do upgrade because we have a proxy. So everytime i must take out the WD at home to do upgrade. This is not really pratical. Thank you.

For a day or two I thought my router was having issues because I couldn't connect to the web GUI. Then I remembered the old days when you could only configure your router if you were hard wired to it. I like the default to be this secure but I'd like to have the option to change that.