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My Book Live & My Book Live Duo: Collect System Logs

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IMPORTANT:

The My Book Live and My Book Live Duo have the ability to generate log files to help determine what went wrong in the case of an error or problem with the drive.
Please follow the instructions below:

  1. Log into the Dashboard of your My Book Live device (when connected to router or directly to the computer with an Ethernet cable).
     
      My Book Live   My Book Live Duo
    Windows http://mybooklive Windows http://mybookliveduo
    MacOS http://mybooklive.local MacOS http://mybookliveduo.local
     

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  2. Click Support.
     

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  3. Click Create & Save in the lower-left section of the page.
     

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  4. The browser will request todownload a file called systemlog_ followed by the drives serial number, and a number.

    EXAMPLE: The file may be named similar to systemlog_WDSERIALNUM_1290114849.

  5. Click Contact Us to submit the logs
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Answer ID 7548
Published 08/20/2018 01:05 AM
Updated 10/04/2022 02:27 PM

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