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How do I move icloud off of the system drive

The iCloud folder on my Win 10 C drive was more than half of the drive.
I have a raid Drive that I wanted to move it to.
I found this
I turned off iCloud and allowed it to delete the files so that when they were downloaded i would get a clean fresh copy, but I get an error message when I try and create the Link

C:\Users\steve>mklink /J "C:\users\steve\iCloudDrive" "a:\00 iCloudDrive A"
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

It talks about a file vs a directory, not sure why.
I tried deleting them and recreating the directories to no avail
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8/22/2022 - Mon
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steveurich

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"that location"

Are you referring to the old location on Drive C or the new location on Drive A or both?

Thanks,

Steve


steveurich

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I deleted them both and it worked, Thx

C:\Users>mklink /J "C:\users\steve\iCloudDrive" "a:\00 iCloudDrive A"
Junction created for C:\users\steve\iCloudDrive <<===>> a:\00 iCloudDrive A

C:\Users>
C:\Users>cd steve

C:\Users\steve>dir
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is C000-FC8B

 Directory of C:\Users\steve

06/12/2021  05:42 PM    <DIR>          .
06/12/2021  05:42 PM    <DIR>          ..
02/03/2019  07:16 AM    <DIR>          .swt
10/25/2020  06:18 PM    <DIR>          3D Objects
03/19/2020  05:24 PM    <DIR>          ansel
01/26/2019  05:29 AM    <DIR>          Apple
06/09/2021  03:30 PM    <DIR>          Backup NTUSER-dat
10/25/2020  06:18 PM    <DIR>          Contacts
03/31/2020  07:13 PM           800,269 DELL Windows 10 - System Information Version 8.pdf
06/12/2021  05:34 PM    <DIR>          Desktop
06/12/2021  05:32 PM    <DIR>          Documents
06/12/2021  05:30 PM    <DIR>          Downloads
12/09/2020  01:25 AM    <DIR>          Dropbox
10/25/2020  06:18 PM    <DIR>          Favorites
06/12/2021  05:42 PM    <JUNCTION>     iCloudDrive [a:\00 iCloudDrive A]
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