My Photos app stopped working last week. It opens to the welcome splash screen, but when i select get started, the wheel starts spinning and that's all that happens. When I try to close it, it says it's creating a library, but never ends.

I have been using Photos since the update. I had no problems until last week when it stopped working. Despite the fact that I've been using it, it opens to the welcome splash screen with the "Get Started" button. When I click it, the wheel starts spinning and that's all that happens until eventually force quit it using the apple menu. Can anyone help?

OK, so apparently you have the MBW connected via the software equivelent of a crossover cable- ethernet frames but no routing. Not sure what negative impact that has or doesn;t have. Certainly its not how the drive was intended to work - it would be far easier to just have a USB connection for that.
WD software in general has a very bad history. Note that some drives have been lost entirely due to incompatability with Mavericks - read the tips section here for mroe details, btu i would NOT use it.
I cant help you with WD software. But the first task is to access the drive and make sure you can communicate with it. I would go to the main drive to do that. From there you should be abke to remove the partition for the backup, and begin over with something less troublesome - such as Carbon Copy Cloner, Time MAchine ( i dont use it and did nt much like it) or , my preferred method, good old unix rsync.
In any event, your prpoblem is one of authorization. So first see if the drive is responding in general ( try to access it the normal way), then move to that particular volume.
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