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WD My Cloud: indexing switched off - so it goes

  • Sep 12, 2025
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You want to turn off the automatic indexing in the case of your WD My Cloud, this is mostly with just a few clicks. How to do this exactly, we will show you in this practical tip.

WD My Cloud: to turn off the indexing

  1. First go to the "settings" of the NAS is to SSH to activate.
  2. Connect with a SSH client, such as Putty, with the NAS.
  3. Log on with your user data when prompted.
  4. First, enter the following two commands and confirm with [Enter]: "/etc/init.d/wdmcserverd stop", as well as "/etc/init.d/wdphotodbmergerd stop"
  5. You wait for the Server to which commands are processed, and then enter these commands: "update-rc.d wdphotodbmergerd disable" "update-rc.d wdmcserverd disable"
  6. After entering you can close the SSH connection and the Server via the menu and restart. Thereafter, the automatic indexing is turned off successfully.
WD My Cloud: indexing off
Would you like your WD My Cloud to encrypt, we will show you in the next practice tip on how to do this.

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6 COMMENTS

Dani, Wed 17, 2021

Did not work under OS5 Both commands are "not found"

Jens, Wed 24, 2021

@Dani: Same here too. OS5 doenst have any of these possibilities...

Paul, Mon 16, 2021

Once you are in ssh, go to etc/init.d and find the two server names..then you can turn off the execute bit and they will be unable to start up again.

JoeD-RDU, Tue 17, 2021

any way to stop this constant indexing in OS5?? im getting permission denied

Annie, Fri 10, 2021

I haven't yet tried your solution but I have a question. Will doing this also prevent remote access to the drive or just stop thumbnail generation? I'd like to still use the app to see my files when not at home but after upgrading to OS5 a month ago, my drive is still indexing. It reached 99% but is now hovering around 14-23% up and down.

ksibet, Wed 13, 2021

Both files don't even exist under OS5!!!!

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