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

thank you so much! It's work!

I tried this and the directory junction was created sucessfully, iCloud Drive begun to populate the files from iCloud into the right drive (the E: drive in my instance) but the files being downloaded to my new "E:\iCloud Drive" folder still appear to be taking up space on my C: drive?? Now I have the same amount of space being used on both C: and E: instead of on just one drive! Which completely defeats the purpose of it all! It is astonishing that Apple still haven't added the ability to specify a location for the iCloudDrive folder!

Thank you 🙂 it works on a French MacBook with Windows 10 bootcamp !

you saved my life !

😎

i have the same problem on windows 10, i need update my icloud store. please help

Guys, the most easy way to move and drop a symbolic link, the tweak are "Link Shell Extension", http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html // completely works for me.

You are right , this method doubles the storage on both drives. This method does not work.

Ok, that's work fine, the trouble is that YOU MUST MOVE your user folder "iCloud Drive" to the final destination you wish, if you don't move that de mklink don't work properly and all files appear in both destinations.

Of course all iCloud processes must be closed before.

I have tried that Jaco.XiliX's solution 2 times.

At my first try, it didn't work. then i tried again and saw that it worked.

I think the most important point is the "unchecking iCloud Drive checkbox" in iCloud Settings.

because it was the only different thing between my 2 tries 🙂

The mklink function does not work guys. It might look like it does but it doesn't. Well it certainly didn't for me

Using either the /j (junction) or /d (symbolic link) functions just ends up duplicating the data. Try it you will see during syncing that data in both the default location c:\users\(username)\iclouddrive and d:\iclouddrive will duplicate. You can see it filling both drives.

It is hardcoded into the icloud app to sync all data to c:\ all the mklink function does is copy it again

Apple come on with all your dollars you thought you could have written into the UI a change in drive location ike you do for photos. defo not a flexible product. I am moving to OneDrive where you do have this option.

Thanks, that explains why I saw the same thing on my Windows 7 machine. Now I have a new box with Windows 10 to share with my Macs, and there's no fix there either. However, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box all relocate to the storage drive without a hitch.

For what it's worth, I just got off the phone with Apple phone support about this very issue. The guy I spoke with looked hard to find a fix (iCloud is choking my SSD), but all he could find was a link to this discussion. I would hold out hope for Apple to make this possible, but this is Apple we're talking about. Users needs are never as important to Apple as deciding for us what we need.

Sigh.

yes

Thank you for the feedback!

Steve