Sick of vanishing folders!

Ok. I’m tired. I need someone to bullet-point for me how to do 2 things:

  • set my WD Essential to manual so that when I plug it into my laptop, *nothing* happens until I make it happen.

  • How to properly add folders/ files to the HD & have them *stay* there.

I must’ve entered my photo files to this thing at least 3x. *Why* do they keep disappearing?

Thanks for any help.

Hello, if you connect the My Book to most Windows PCs you should get the autoplay window with shortcuts to some options, if you want to disable this, from the My Computer/Computer window, right click on the My Book and select properties, from the autoplay tab you can disable this option. Any other thing that could happen when you connect the My Book will be related to a program that you install or setup on your computer to use the My Book. 

You might want to check the link below so you can review the steps on how to manually copy files to an external hard drive. 

How to move or copy files from one hard drive to another in Windows