Western Digital stop Discover App support.

[extraT]

The absolute bds.

They have / will stopped support for “legacy” software. Which means if you have a my cloud device, like I do, you can basically now only use it with your phone, Windows devices will no longer sync automatically. The s.

Question: is there third party software I can use to auto sync files from windows to the MyCloud Home? It’s a great device, and actually would still work, if the aholes countinued support.

Otherwise I might look at alternative solutions and WD have just lost a customer.

Thanks ET.

[Captain_Morgan]

This might have passed you by but unfortunately no vendor can support devices indefinitely, especially with the potential security issues.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23683081/wester...

Syncthings might be of interest to you.

[V8RAW]

If you are accessing the drive locally via mapped drive, you can use synctoy - a Microsoft app to synchronise files between PC and drive.

[Captain_Morgan]

V8RAW said:

If you are accessing the drive locally via mapped drive, you can use synctoy - a Microsoft app to synchronise files between PC and drive.

I’m not sure that synctoy can be recommended as it has been discontinued & official downloads ceased in Nov 2021 iirc.