Tuesday, February 23, 2021

How do I access files from MyCloud Drive from a Windows PC?

 Yes,

WD ended support of WD sync. I have been trying unsuccessfully to figure out the new way of accessing my files. I was shocked to find out an easy way! And almost intuitive! Obviously if it was intuitive I would have found it long ago.

I simply go to Network, which I can find in Windows explorer under Desktop, and the drive appears under Storage. I have always double-clicked this and it opens the almost useless webpage, where it tells me all sorts of things about the drive, but gives me no way to access the damn thing. Sound familiar?

Then I RIGHT-CLICK the icon, and choose open! That worked!!

I don't know if there are permissions and passwords that need to be entered, maybe having once or very recently accessed the drive on the web meant my permissions were already in the system, but what happened when I clicked open is that it opened as a network drive in a windows explorer window! Eureka!

Good luck!