Operation Manual

Using your LinkStation
LinkStation User Manual 8
• Wh
en using two-byte characters (such as Japanese), make folder or le names with 80 characters or less. You
may not be able to copy a folder or a le whose name length is more than 80 characters.
• You cannot set hidden or read-only attributes to sub-folders or les on the LinkStation.
• If non-Roman alphabetical folder names or workgroup names do not display properly, rename the folder or
workgroup with Roman alphabetical characters.
• Please don’t use any of the following words as the name of a shared folder. These words are reserved for
internal use by the LinkStation:
info, spool, usbdisk1, usbdisk2, usbdisk3, usbdisk4, lost+found, global, printers, homes, lp, auth, test, ram,
disk1, disk2, disk3, disk4, array1, array2, msdfs_root, mt-daapd
• The following characters are handled dierently by Mac OS X and Windows. Avoid using these characters when sharing
data between Mac OS X and Windows:
• The following characters are not displayed correctly by Windows, or by a Mac connected to the LinkStation via SMB.
Avoid their use in le names that will be used with the LinkStation.
• Never turn o the LinkStation or unplug its network cable while data is being written. Doing so may result in an
incomplete le that cannot be opened or deleted. If this happens, restart the LinkStation, delete the le, then retry
copying the le.
• Your OS may update the date and timestamp stored on the LinkStation’s hard drive, or on a USB drive
connected to the LinkStation. This might result in inaccurate information for date-created or date-accessed
data on the LinkStation.
• In the LinkStation’s conguration utility, or from a Mac OS X 10.6 or later, drive size is displayed in gigabytes,
where 1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is also how drive capacity is expressed on your LinkStation’s
packaging. However, if you check the drive size from an older Mac, or from a Windows computer, it may
display the size of the drive in gibibytes, where 1 gibibyte = 1,073,741,824 bytes. Since a gibibyte is larger
than a gigabyte, the displayed drive capacity will be a smaller number than the actual drive size.
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