WD My Cloud (Page 2): Just so everyone's clear on this- A WD My Cloud is not wireless. It has no wireless capabilities at all by itself. To function it MUST be plugged into a router.

chuckcee Loc: Pittsburgh PA

Just so everyone's clear on this- A WD My Cloud is not wireless. It has no wireless capabilities at all by itself. To function it MUST be plugged into a router. If your router is wireless -- great.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

chuckcee wrote:

Just so everyone's clear on this- A WD My Cloud is not wireless. It has no wireless capabilities at all by itself. To function it MUST be plugged into a router. If your router is wireless -- great.

Can't argue that, but for the sake of the Post, we'll assume he is using a wireless router.

chuckcee Loc: Pittsburgh PA

sorry double post. too much coffee :-D

plaza Loc: london uk

Saleavitt10 wrote:

Is anyone using a WD My Cloud drive with Lightroon? I have limited space on my MacBook Pro's harddrive and it can't be upgraded. I want to use the My Cloud drive to store my photos and get them off the MacBook's internal harddrive. I want to use the wireless capability of the drive. After setting it up, the MacBook sees the new drive but Lightroom doesn't see it. Anybody using it in this way and if so how the heck did you get Lightroom to see the new wireless drive?

as your using a mac i find i have to drag and drop to my drive but when it comes to putting from drive to lightroom it recognises it as a drive

Saleavitt10 Loc: Maine

chuckcee wrote:

Just so everyone's clear on this- A WD My Cloud is not wireless. It has no wireless capabilities at all by itself. To function it MUST be plugged into a router. If your router is wireless -- great.

It is connected via cable to a wireless router. The mac sees the drive but LR does not find it.

Basil Loc: New Mexico

Saleavitt10 wrote:

It is connected via cable to a wireless router. The mac sees the drive but LR does not find it.

I AM using LR with my MyCloud Mirror. You must go into finder and select the WDMycloud so that you "connect" and can see your Public share in finder. Then, you go into LR and import photos to the Public share. If I have time I'll do a tutorial video to show how I'm doing it.

Saleavitt10 Loc: Maine

Bill Houghton wrote:

I use it all the time, Import the select source at the top, then select OTHER. I should show the Public Drive on WDMYCloud.

I can see the my cloud drive when I do an Import in LR but I want to be able to import from my SD card to the my cloud drive. The only drives LR is recognizing to import to are the internal hard drive and an external drive connected via USB cable. My internal drive is close to being full and I don't really want to always plug in the external drive. Would like to move the files via LR (so the Catalog knows where they are) to the my cloud drive. Is this how you are using your my cloud drive?

Basil Loc: New Mexico

Saleavitt10 wrote:

I can see the my cloud drive when I do an Import in LR but I want to be able to import from my SD card to the my cloud drive. The only drives LR is recognizing to import to are the internal hard drive and an external drive connected via USB cable. My internal drive is close to being full and I don't really want to always plug in the external drive. Would like to move the files via LR (so the Catalog knows where they are) to the my cloud drive. Is this how you are using your my cloud drive?

I do this all the time. See my previous post.

Saleavitt10 Loc: Maine

Basil wrote:

I AM using LR with my MyCloud Mirror. You must go into finder and select the WDMycloud so that you "connect" and can see your Public share in finder. Then, you go into LR and import photos to the Public share. If I have time I'll do a tutorial video to show how I'm doing it.

A tutorial would be great and you will be my hero for the week!

Basil Loc: New Mexico

Saleavitt10 wrote:

A tutorial would be great and you will be my hero for the week!

Well now I have to do it.

plaza Loc: london uk

Basil wrote:

I AM using LR with my MyCloud Mirror. You must go into finder and select the WDMycloud so that you "connect" and can see your Public share in finder. Then, you go into LR and import photos to the Public share. If I have time I'll do a tutorial video to show how I'm doing it.

great for almost a year now I've been messing around just done as you said and it works perfectly should have asked my self before great advice gained from here

Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

Saleavitt10 wrote:

I can see the my cloud drive when I do an Import in LR but I want to be able to import from my SD card to the my cloud drive. The only drives LR is recognizing to import to are the internal hard drive and an external drive connected via USB cable. My internal drive is close to being full and I don't really want to always plug in the external drive. Would like to move the files via LR (so the Catalog knows where they are) to the my cloud drive. Is this how you are using your my cloud drive?

I think there are some terminology issues at play here. You say (I want to be able to import from my SD card to the my cloud drive.) Do that with finder, copy your photos from your SD card to a folder on your WD cloud drive. Then in Lightroom import use add and select the source (the folder on the WD cloud drive) that you say you (can see the my cloud drive when I do an Import in LR)

Maybe I don't fully understand but am trying to help. Lightroom does not actually import the files, it just points to them so to speak.

Basil Loc: New Mexico

Frank2013 wrote:

I think there are some terminology issues at play ... (show quote)

When you import, you can cause them (the actual files) to be copied to the HD/folder of your choice (including a public share folder on MyCloud)

Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

Basil wrote:

When you import, you can cause them (the actual files) to be copied to the HD/folder of your choice (including a public share folder on MyCloud)

Did not know that. I have never copied from card directly. How do you cause that? I move actual file around in Lightroom. I guess thats part of the copy command sequence. I have always just used the add function. Maybe I can just watch your video.

Saleavitt10 Loc: Maine

Basil wrote:

When you import, you can cause them (the actual files) to be copied to the HD/folder of your choice (including a public share folder on MyCloud)

If the pictures have already been imported to the internal drive how to you move them to the my cloud drive within LR if it doesn't show in the folder section?