Creating a new share – Western Digital My Cloud EX2 User Manual User Manual

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MANAGING USERS, GROUPS, AND SHARES

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WD MY CLOUD EX2 PERSONAL CLOUD STORAGE

USER MANUAL

Creating a New Share

You can create a share and designate it as public or private. For example, if the share
contains financial information, you may want to make the share private. Or, if there are
photos you would like a friend to see, you can make the share public to that friend.

1. Click the

Shares

icon

on the navigation bar to display the About Shares

screen.

2. Click the

Add a Share

icon

.

3. Complete the following settings:

Volume

Select the volume from the drop-down menu.

Share Name

Assign a name to the share. (Names must be case sensitive,
and contain 1-32 alphanumeric characters but no spaces.)

Share Description (optional)

Enter a brief description of the share to remind yourself of
what it contains. Note that share descriptions must begin with
an alphanumeric value and can contain up to 256 characters.

Enable Recycle Bin (optional)

The Recycle Bin contains any files deleted from the WD My
Cloud EX2 device. If you’d like to use the Recycle Bin, click

the toggle button

. to ON. (Default is OFF.)

Note:

The Recycle Bin is only available for Windows
SMB files.

4. Click

Next

.

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