Finally, Go to the explorer window which we had open in step 1 and click in the URL bar at the top so the path is highlighted, right click and select copy. Make the cmd prompt window active and enter a space then right click and paste. [/li][/list]
Hopefully you will have something similar to that below
mklink /d C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\Temp001 \\nas\Data\TestMusic
If you have press enter the next thing you will hopefully see is
symbolic link created for C:\Users\ YourUserName \Documents\Temp001 <<===>> \\nas\data\testmusic
If you do then this network location should now be available in your libraries without being indexed or offline
Hi Berrick,
Thanks for the detailed explanation, but unfortunately when I get to the above point, my target information does not look anything like your example of '\\nas\data\testmusic' when I go and copy and paste it it just shows the drive drive letter ( Y:\ ) or drive letter and folder name whichever way I try, but nothing relevant to a NAS Drive.
Which results in a CMD message of 'Wrong Syntax'
Something I just thought of is to go and try the last step but using the Network folder and not just choosing the drive letter, if it works I will let you know. very soon.
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After my eye surgery last week the eyes are not too bad but vision is still quite blurry)
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Edit,
I managed to get the result you aimed for, the problem was I had inserted a space in the temporary file name that I created which the symbolic link/syntax must have detected and created the problem with thinking it was part of a trigger/? and not just the file name.
However, I think it's still not what I wanted and am just going to leave it now, basically as explained earlier, all relevant NAS drives/folders are now already recognised in the library links (even without indexing) although I don't know how it happened.
But thanks again for all your help and I assure you it was very much appreciated and hopefully will also help anyone else coming across this thread.