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Windows 7 Libraries - Using network share locations

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By default Windows 7 will not let you use a network share in “Libraries” unless it is either available offline (which kind of deny the purpose of a network share!) or it is indexed.

However, using some good old DOS/Shell tricks you can easily use network shares in “Libraries” anyway .. here how:

1. Create a folder on your hard drive inside c:\temp
2. Create another folder in the above folder called i.e. “myData” (c:\temp\myData)
2. Link the Library to this folder.
3. Delete the “myData” folder
4. Use the mklink in an elevated command prompt to make a symbolic link. Name the link the same as the folder you created above.
i.e - mklink /d c:\temp\myData \\server\myDataShare
5. Done. Now you have non-indexed UNC path as a library.


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