Make windows 10 think a network drive is in my user folder?

[whitedragon101]

 

I am trying to backup some folders on my synology NAS to my 2TB of iCloud storage.

iCloud for windows 10 defaults to uploading anything in the folder /users/me/iCloud  .

 

Is there any way I can either :

 

- put a link or some clever way to make Windows 10 and therefore the iCloud app think a folder on my network drive (an SMB share) is in there.

or

-redirect the location of this folder to be on my network drive (an SMB share).

 

 

Many Thanks 

[DnFx91]

7 minutes ago, whitedragon101 said:

 

I am trying to backup some folders on my synology NAS to my 2TB of iCloud storage.

iCloud for windows 10 defaults to uploading anything in the folder /users/me/iCloud  .

 

Is there any way I can either :

 

- put a link or some clever way to make Windows 10 and therefore the iCloud app think a folder on my network drive (an SMB share) is in there.

or

-redirect the location of this folder to be on my network drive (an SMB share).

 

 

Many Thanks 

there are "watch folder" programs that can do this for you

[Mira Yurizaki]

Use symbolic links (symlink). This will make the path resolving system think a file or folder is really somewhere, even though it points to somewhere else. So let's say you want the system to think D:\Foobar is in C:\Users\CoolUser\Documents\. You put a symlink in C:\Users\CoolUser\Documents called "Foobar" that points to D:\Foobar. You can now use C:\Users\CoolUser\Documents\Foobar and the path resolving mechanisms will trick everyone into thinking that's where you are, but the OS will secretly read/write everything in D:\Foobar. You can still access D:\Foobar normally too.

 

Anyway the way to make a symlink is:

• Open a command prompt as an admin
• Go to the directory where you want to put the symlink
• Issue the command: mklink /J [Name of symlink] [Where you want the symlink to point]
  • So if your network drive is Z: and you want it to be in your Documents folder, you would issue
    • cd C:\Users\[whatever your username is]\Documents
    • mklink /J "Network drive" Z:\
  • Note the "/J" flag is for directories. If you were doing this to a file, you would omit it.

[whitedragon101]

9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Use symbolic links (symlink). This will make the path resolving system think a file or folder is really somewhere, even though it points to somewhere else. So let's say you want the system to think D:\Foobar is in C:\Users\CoolUser\Documents\. You put a symlink in C:\Users\CoolUser\Documents called "Foobar" that points to D:\Foobar. You can now use C:\Users\CoolUser\Documents\Foobar and the path resolving mechanisms will trick everyone into thinking that's where you are, but the OS will secretly read/write everything in D:\Foobar. You can still access D:\Foobar normally too.

 

Anyway the way to make a symlink is:

• Open a command prompt as an admin
• Go to the directory where you want to put the symlink
• Issue the command: mklink /J [Name of symlink] [Where you want the symlink to point]
  • So if your network drive is Z: and you want it to be in your Documents folder, you would issue
    • cd C:\Users\[whatever your username is]\Documents
    • mklink /J "Network drive" Z:\
  • Note the "/J" flag is for directories. If you were doing this to a file, you would omit it.

Thanks I seem to have a problem it says local volumes are required to complete the operation.

 

I have attached a screenshot.  If you could help that would be great

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, whitedragon101 said:

Thanks I seem to have a problem it says local volumes are required to complete the operation.

 

I have attached a screenshot.  If you could help that would be great

The interwebs tell me you have use /D instead /J for network drives.

 

I never used it on network drives before.

[whitedragon101]

8 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

The interwebs tell me you have use /D instead /J for network drives.

 

I never used it on network drives before.

Tried with the D version it didn't display success but when I try again it says it already exists.

 

However when I put a folder or file in the network drive it does not appear to be in the iCloud directory. Screenshot below

[Mira Yurizaki]

12 minutes ago, whitedragon101 said:

Tried with the D version it didn't display success but when I try again it says it already exists.

 

However when I put a folder or file in the network drive it does not appear to be in the iCloud directory. Screenshot below

Delete/move/rename the folder first.