Trouble accessing MyCloud drive locally

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 Is it possible to access my drive locally instead of through the web?

I thought I had set everything properly but yesterday we were having internet issues and I couldn’t acess the files on my drive. When the internet came back on I was able to access the drive again. So I did an experiment and unplugged the incoming internet cable from the wall to the router, but left the router and other ethernet cables plugged in. I was not able to access the drive.

I was expecting it to just mount on the Mac desktop like my other hard drives without having to go online to transfer a file.

I’m probably missing something basic about how this works.

Any help appreciated.

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Yes, you can access the drive as long as it is connected to your local network, without needing access to the Internet.

On a Mac, you should see the drive on the network, and in the shared section of the finder left navigation window.

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