Up until a few days ago, I accessed the folders and files on WDMyCloudMirror under Network in Windows Explorer. I can find it in other ways and I ran diagnostics and nothing appears to be wrong. This is incredibly annoying since I can no longer access the drive from applications when I want to open or save a file.
I rebooted the drive but it didn’t change anything, I have the same issue on both my laptop and my desktop PC. I added it as a trusted device in Norton Security. I have no idea what changed and am not as technical as many of you out there.
Has anyone else had this crop up and were you able to solve it?
It can happen if your network speed has slowed down (something been added to it for example, or heavy traffic). it can also happen if there’s a name resolution issue or if such resolution is just too slow. I had the latter problem on my network, and overcame it by adding a dedicated WINS server to a Pi on my network.
One route around it is you can map a drive to the required share, then it should always be available via that mapped drive letter regardless of whether it’s visible under Network or not (presuming of course it is still active and available on your network).
Thank you for the response.
I have mapped drives on the laptop and will do likewise on my desktop.
I asked my husband if he was seeing the MyCloudMirror on his laptop and he said he is. Wondering if something happened with my user name (I’m the admin). I am thinking of setting him up as a user on one of my systems to see what happens.
We are the only two are the network and he is at work all day. I haven’t added anything but did get a Windows update a coupe days ago. I swear - every time I get an Windows 10 update something gets screwed up.
I am now completely baffled. I added my husband as a user to my laptop and WDMYCLOUDMIRROR shows up under Network in Windows Explorer.
I then enabled the Administrator account with my name and once again, it shows up under Network.
So I then logged back in using my usual account. Lo and behold, the WDMYCLOUDMIRROR was there! I have no idea what happened, Next step is to log onto my desktop PC and see if WDMYCLOUDMIRROR is once again displaying under Network. If it is, I am going to map each share so I can easily get to files if this happens again.
The user name should make no difference, as of course if you can’t see the MCM on the network then you’re before the point of logging in anyway.
My suspicion would be that either there’s a difference in the network speed between the machines, or the first connection woke the MCM up and do it could quickly respond when requested and so appeared.
But in any case glad it is working now - hope it stays that way!
