Hi Jim,

I haven’t used FreeFileSync before but probably it is hammering the NAS with multiple threads during the scanning process? Also it’s not recommended to have more than one services performing extensive jobs, it will definitely hurt the NAS being low powered CPU and RAM.

As for getting the latest Syncthing (also most other popular apps), the WD’s core is too old (since wheezy) it lacks many updated dependencies. You can choose to downgrade on other clients to match the compatibility. I can’t promise much but I’ll try my best to compile Syncthing to its latest possible version.

I installed Syncthing 0.14.19 but it didn’t work out well. I was able to bring up the Syncthing web interface to Syncthing running on the My Cloud. It scanned some of the files but it only bogged down with only a small percentage of the My Cloud files scanned. I tried to run FreeFileSync to sync my desktop folders with My Cloud folders but it was bogged down too. It worked fine before, and I could get it working again if I shut down Syncthing (can’t remember if I had to shut down Syncthing on my desktop, the My Cloud, or both). Then I couldn’t bring up the web interface to Syncthing running on the My Cloud, and I didn’t know how to shut down Syncthing on the My Cloud from my SSH Terminal (PuTTY). Finally I thought the only solution was to reinstall the 4.05.00-342 firmware and that’s what I did. I’ve reinstalled CloudDavMod for 342 and got it working.

Do you think it’s possible to get Syncthing working well on the MyCloud or is everything just too old now? Maybe 0.14.19 on the My Cloud isn’t compatible with the Syncthing I’m running on my Windows desktop, which is 1.18.6. It would be nice to get it running but I can just certainly move on if it’s not reasonably easy to do.

Thanks for your great tools over the years.