WD ShareSpace not saving pictures

I attempted to backup files to my external WD ShareSpace 2TB network storage system. The documents were saved but it only saved a shortcut to my pictures, which is useless if you have a system malfunction.

For some unknown reason I have lost my latest pictures downloaded to Windows 8 and photoshop 10.

Why didn’t they save on the ShareSpace?

I also thought that files would be backed up automatically - not so.

Am I doing something wrong?

I will admit that I purchased the storage system  some years ago but never installed it. Now that I have a you beaut, new computer I thought that I should utilize it, but am disappointed

Hello and welcome,

Did you make the backup manually by copy/pasting or did you used a program to backup your files?