How to change the home dir of iCloud Drive (Windows version)?

just an edit to my last post: you don't actually move the folder but create an empty one (where you want it relocated) with the same name before creating the simlink, it will then populate automatically once iCloud Drive is activated again.

ok bad news ... the new relocated folder only populates with folders and subfolders for Keynote, Numbers etc... but no content, the files themselves don't sync. I'll give it a bit of time and if that doesn't change I'll switch back to the original location.

Ok, this is apple - you guys are way overthinking this.

If you want the iCloud Drive folder on another drive, just 'move' it - the same way you would an ordinary folder. I know it sounds crazy, and it is totally contrary to how similar Windows services work but trust me - it works!

You may have to hit F5 to refresh after moving the folder to see the proper iCloud Drive folder icon in the destination folder, and on my machine it left a folder I couldn't open in the source folder (which disappeared by itself after a reboot).

This doesn't work for me on Windows 7. All it did was move the folder. On reboot, iCloud folder on c: drive was just restored and I ended up with two folders. The one on c: drive was linked to iCloud and the one on the d: drive was just a copy from the original move.

Apple, please add the option to move the folder just like is possible with photos.

Yep, I see the link, it has the shortcut icon, and I see the folder ALSO in my destination drive... but it's still in C, all the subfolders show up as being on C, and it just seems to be duplicating the files not actually linking them correctly to the new destination drive.

Would be better if iCloud had an option button in the control panel that gave you the choice of saying what directory you want the file to reside in.

Great...It worked perfectly,thanks to you 🙂

Thanks alot 🙂 It works just fine. And to other who are doubting this can verify this as when i re-enabled iCloudDrive, the iCloudDrive folder in my D: drive automatically got populated with the cloud files (while it was empty earlier).

Can i use this linking method to have same Dropbox folder on my Linux and Windows? I am dual booting currently on the same machine. Anyways will try this and report back 🙂

EDIT: wow this method works with Dropbox folder too 🙂

A better way is to believe Apple that they are working on the solution like Option for Photos:

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/09/19/icloud-for-windows-updated-with-icloud-d rive/

Thanks, worked fine for me.

iCloud 4.0.2 has the option to change location of Photos, except whenever I tried to change the location, photostream wouldn't sync any photos. Only the default folder works, so I had to create a symlink from C:\Users\MyUsernName\Pictures\iCloud Photos to D:\Photos -- Come on Apple.. Why do I have to go through all this trouble

Hi all,

This method is giving me a error. Not sure why this is hapenning. When i disable icloud drive it deletes the folder (not sure if it is supposed to).

Then the command prompt then tells me "the system cannot find the path specified"

How would the system find the path specified when control pannel deletes the iCloudDrive folder?

Hi

copy & paste what you are typing in command line an I can have a look at it.

Read the instructions once more you need to create a destination folder. Keep in mind that if you have spaces in the path you would need tho use "e:\my icloud folder\" and not e:\my icloud folder\ without quotes.

worked per instructions, but I hate it why dont we have the option in icloud panel.

and yeah, we need file managing app, and link creation from all documents etc...

EDIT: and I hate I need to redownload all the files. Why cant I just paste them there, and icloud should compare and see they are same and have them like that?

@Jaco.XiliX

This worked for me on Windows 10.

Thanks a lot.

Worked like charm :-) Thanks!