WD world edition

Western Digital has the 1T world edition that will let you watch photos (ONLY) from this box over the internet.
can I do the same with a mac mini server but be able to watch movies too, AND have access to my home computer from anywhere over the internet.

dropbox.com will play photos, songs, and movies, its free, its totally cool, but, only has 2gig of free space. maybe I need to drop on down to my local Apple store and ask a genius how to do this.
apple should pay genius's to answer qu's online

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    WD knowledgebase article acknowledging the issue and stating that they are working on a fix.  If you register you can subscribe to the article so you're notified when it is updated.
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    WD and their lack of support for Mavericks:
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    Dear WD Registered Customer,
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    As a valued WD customer we want to make you aware of new reports of Western Digital and other external HDD products experiencing data loss when updating to Apple's OS X Mavericks (10.9). WD is urgently investigating these reports and the possible connection to the WD Drive Manager, WD Raid Manager and WD SmartWare software applications. Until the issue is understood and the cause identified, WD strongly urges our customers to uninstall these software applications before updating to OS X Mavericks (10.9), or delay upgrading. If you have already upgraded to Mavericks, WD recommends that you remove these applications and restart your computer. If you have already upgraded to Mavericks and are experiencing difficulty in accessing your external hard drive, please do not save anything to the drive, disconnect the drive from your computer, and contact Western Digital Customer Service at http://support.wd.com/country/ for further assistance.
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    Sincerely,
    Western Digital
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  • Setting up Time Machine with Snow Leopard and MyBook World Edition II NAS

    I have just successfully set up Time Machine on my MyBook World Edition II NAS. It's not so straightforward, and the information on the Western Digital support site is either unhelpful or flat-out wrong, so here's a post that will hopefully save people in a similar position a lot of time and frustration.
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  • Western Digital My Book World EditionI have bought a WD My Book World Edition to use for back-up of my iMac, but when I try and log onto the drive with Apple time Machine (back-up software) or connect in any other way i get the message 'There was a proble

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  • TM with MyBook World Edition II

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