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Creakydoor
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Dec 21, 2015
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R7500v2 and sharing files

I recently got an R7500v2 to replace a defective R7500 and set up a USB drive on it to share media. AFAIK, I have it configured the same exact way as I had on the R7500, but none of my devices can see...
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    Creakydoor
    Dec 21, 2015

    Turns out there was a corrupt readyDLNA file on the disk.  This corruption seemed to happen after I installed the new router.  I cleaned up the directory, and it rebuilt it and it seems fine.  It would be good for the router to log some errors when it hits fatal errors with a service.

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JamesGL
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 21, 2015

Hi Creakydoor,

 

Please contact support team who replaced your unit with v2 to report this issue.

Creakydoor's avatar
Creakydoor
Tutor
Dec 21, 2015

Turns out there was a corrupt readyDLNA file on the disk.  This corruption seemed to happen after I installed the new router.  I cleaned up the directory, and it rebuilt it and it seems fine.  It would be good for the router to log some errors when it hits fatal errors with a service.