Hardlinks not working (Help)

[Frugivore8894]

So about a week ago I asked for a way to get my iCloud phots on to my secondary drive  see here. And the solution was Hardlinks i just got around to doing it and I can't get it to work. So here is that I have done. First I right clicked on my iCloud phots in file explorer and clicked Pick link source. 

 

 

 

Then I went to where I want my photos and right clicked the Drop As...

  

But the option for "Hardlink" is not there. I have tried multiple times and it wont work. 

 

Thx for any help. 

 

[AbydosOne]

26 minutes ago, Frugivore8894 said:

Then I went to where I want my photos and right clicked the Drop As...

Are you selecting a real folder or the "Pictures" folder-that-Windows-creates-out-of-multiple-locations-but-really-isn't-a-folder?

[7heo]

47 minutes ago, Frugivore8894 said:

to my secondary drive

Hard links only work within the same partition. The way they are implemented is by making multiple references to a single object. There is no existing object in the foreign partition for you to refer to. So what you were advised to do unfortunately cannot work.

 

However I have a suggestion, to achieve what you want another way. This requires an additional partition on your secondary hard drive; with enough space to store your photos (all of them, even the future ones). Once you created that partition, close iCloud photo, head to the Windows's "Computer Management Tool", select "Drive management", and replace the drive letter by the path of your iCloud photo directory.

 

Once that is done, start iCloud photo again and hopefully your photos will now be on your hard drive. You can verify that by checking the amount of space left on your main drive after you add or remove photos: it should be unchanged. One last heads up: last time I did this was on Windows 7, and most programs weren't designed with that feature in mind; so if I happened to move/create a file bigger than the amount of space left on my main drive, it was failing, no matter how much space was free on my extra partition. Also, I don't remember how it warned me about running out of space on that partition. Windows might have, but I can't remember really.

[Frugivore8894]

1 hour ago, 7heo said:

Hard links only work within the same partition. The way they are implemented is by making multiple references to a single object. There is no existing object in the foreign partition for you to refer to. So what you were advised to do unfortunately cannot work.

 

However I have a suggestion, to achieve what you want another way. This requires an additional partition on your secondary hard drive; with enough space to store your photos (all of them, even the future ones). Once you created that partition, close iCloud photo, head to the Windows's "Computer Management Tool", select "Drive management", and replace the drive letter by the path of your iCloud photo directory.

 

Once that is done, start iCloud photo again and hopefully your photos will now be on your hard drive. You can verify that by checking the amount of space left on your main drive after you add or remove photos: it should be unchanged. One last heads up: last time I did this was on Windows 7, and most programs weren't designed with that feature in mind; so if I happened to move/create a file bigger than the amount of space left on my main drive, it was failing, no matter how much space was free on my extra partition. Also, I don't remember how it warned me about running out of space on that partition. Windows might have, but I can't remember really.

So here is the thing you can't change where the files go for iCloud that's the whole problem.

[Frugivore8894]

1 hour ago, AbydosOne said:

Are you selecting a real folder or the "Pictures" folder-that-Windows-creates-out-of-multiple-locations-but-really-isn't-a-folder?

No I made my own folder.

[7heo]

31 minutes ago, Frugivore8894 said:

So here is the thing you can't change where the files go for iCloud that's the whole problem.

You did not read what I wrote.

[Frugivore8894]

3 hours ago, 7heo said:

You did not read what I wrote.

Yes I did and it clearly says 

 

4 hours ago, 7heo said:

and replace the drive letter by the path of your iCloud photo directory.

I might be mistaken but you are say to go to the iCloud app preferences and change where it’s stored. Witch last time I checked ( about 5 days ago) you can’t do. If I am wrong just let me know but that’s the only way to do what you say that I know of. 

[7heo]

No. You know what, never mind, don't open documentation links when asking for assistance. Good luck.

[Frugivore8894]

1 hour ago, 7heo said:

No. You know what, never mind, don't open documentation links when asking for assistance. Good luck.

I did actually read it but I found a better solution anyways.