User manual

GETTING STARTED
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WD MY CLOUD USER MANUAL 
Setting Up your Device
Use the following steps to set up your device using your web browser (for browser
requirements, see “Web Browsers” on page 3).
If you chose not to set up the software for your device, you can still:
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Use your WD My Cloud personal cloud storage device as an external hard drive,
dragging and dropping files to and from it. (See “Accessing Content” on page 13.)
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Configure the device using the WD My Cloud device’s dashboard. (See “The
Dashboard at a Glance” on page 15.)
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Back up files using USB, Remote, Internal, Cloud, and Camera backup. (See
“Backing Up and Retrieving Files” on page 47.)
1. Open a browser and enter your device URL
(see “Appendix D: WD My Cloud Device URLs
and Names” on page 111 for a list of device URLs)
, then click Enter.
The login page appears:
2. Click Login. You do not need to enter a password because you haven’t set one up yet.
The Choose your language screen appears:
3. From the drop-down list, select the language you’d like to use for the user interface.
4. Click the Western Digital End User License Agreement link to read the Western Digital
End User License Agr
eement.
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If you agree, click I accept or return to the previous page and click the I agree
check box.