Have you ever wanted to redirect your
"My Documents" folder to a network drive location in Windows 7 but couldn't quite figure it out? Windows 7 operating system will not allow you add network drives in the library unless these drives are indexed. Most network drives cannot be indexed unless they are synchronized. This limitation will cause or may cause some headaches from the seasoned IT professional to the general user who has a home network. Instead of thinking that putting Windows XP back on the computer might be easier, your friendly neighborhood IT department has the steps for you to try using the
"mklink command, almost like a
"workaround". Make sure you are logged in as
Administrator or as an Administrator and do the following steps:
- 1. Create a temporary folder on the root of your hard drive and call it anything you want. (C:\Shares)
***As an example the folder I am going to create will be called "Shares". Your folder name may be a different name.
- 2. Go into the "Shares" folder and create another folder called Pictures (C:\Shares\Pictures)
- 3. Go into the library of the computer and link the library to the Pictures folder.
- 4. Delete the C:\Shares\Pictures
- 5. Open up Command Prompt
and in an elevated command prompt type in the following:
mklink /d c:\shares\pictures \\server\pictures
6. Exit out of the command prompt and you should be good to go
You now have a network drive in your library. As always for more info on this or any of the steps, please post a comment on this blog site and your friendly neighborhood IT department will get back to you. You can also see more steps on this by clicking
here.
