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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
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 LinkC:\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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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]
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]
Are you referring to the old location on Drive C or the new location on Drive A or both?
Thanks,
Steve