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Indexing/Share access for My Documents
Hi,
I'm running Win7 and on my old ReadNAS I had the My Documents folder for each user mapped directly to the NAS. I now have a new Ultra and I need to do the mapping again but when I attempt this I get a Windows error telling me I need to index the files first. This isn't possible as I have 3TB of files on the NAS and a 500GB hard drive on the main PC. Further, I don't want to create a copy on the desktop which is what I believe will happen if I run Windows Search.
How can I index shares on the Ultra and move each users My Documents folder directly to the NAS?
Thanks in advance.
I'm running Win7 and on my old ReadNAS I had the My Documents folder for each user mapped directly to the NAS. I now have a new Ultra and I need to do the mapping again but when I attempt this I get a Windows error telling me I need to index the files first. This isn't possible as I have 3TB of files on the NAS and a 500GB hard drive on the main PC. Further, I don't want to create a copy on the desktop which is what I believe will happen if I run Windows Search.
How can I index shares on the Ultra and move each users My Documents folder directly to the NAS?
Thanks in advance.
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- Use option 2 in this link: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/46 ... older.html
- thanks. in attempting this if I a, leave the folder I created I get an error message stating that "cannot create a file when a file with that name already exists" and if I b, delete the folder (but leave it in the library) as the directions state I get an error message stating "the system cannot find the path specified"
Any other suggestions? Am I inserting a space where there shouldn't be one? I'm typing c:Windows\system32\mklink /d "c:folder\name" \\nas\folder\name - one other thing- I'm upgrading from my old NAS so I copied the shares over to the new one so they already exist on the machine. However, when I attempted to add the link using a random name i.e. not a share on the new NAS it didn't work anyway.
mklink is a command (e.g., built into cmd.exe), not a stand-alone .exe - which is why "c:Windows\system32\mklink" returns "the system cannot find the path specified"rg807 wrote: thanks. in attempting this if I a, leave the folder I created I get an error message stating that "cannot create a file when a file with that name already exists" and if I b, delete the folder (but leave it in the library) as the directions state I get an error message stating "the system cannot find the path specified"
Any other suggestions? Am I inserting a space where there shouldn't be one? I'm typing c:Windows\system32\mklink /d "c:folder\name" \\nas\folder\name
Try mklink /d "c:\folder\name" "\\nas\folder\name"
That is,
- no path name on the mklink
- c:\ in the link name (not c:)
- quotes around both the link and the target.- Thanks Stephen-
I went directly to the c: prompt in CMD prompt. I called Netgear. I can't seem to figure out what else to do. One thing that may be screwing it up is when I go mklink /d because my "d" drive is just a recovery partition. The error message I get is that the path can't be found. Should I create a partition? The Netgear people can't figure it out either. - /d has nothing to do with your "d" drive. it tells mklink to that you are creating a symbolic directory link (instead of a symbolic link to a file). Creating a partition is not needed (and not relevant).
If you type mklink directly into the CMD prompt, are you still getting the ""the system cannot find the path specified" message? That is, just mklink - nothing else. - I get a message that states "creates a symbolic link" if i type mklink /d and nothing else I get a message that says "the syntax is incorrect" even though right below that it list /D as an option to create a symbolic link. if you want to converse directly please email at rg807@hotmail.com and I'll send you my cell #. Thanks for your help.
- I got it! Apparently the cmd line is case sensetive. Damn it. Anyway, I have a path now.
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