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On my desktop PC I have the folders:

D:\documents\Lightroom
D:\documents\Pictures

In order to work with my Lightroom catalog on my laptop, that only has a drive C: I created the folder C:\documents. Now I'm trying to create some sort of mapping so that I can use D:\documents on my laptop.

I've tried:

mklink /j D:\documents C:\Documents

But that gives me a cannot find path specified error message. Maybe because there is no D: to begin with.

How can I do this?

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You could use the subst command:

subst D: C:\documents

Then you'll have a "drive" that is directly linked to the folder you specified and even shows up on the Explorer window.

Additionally, you could share the C:\documents folder and give it permission to your user only, then you could use the net use command to map it like a network drive with read/write permissions:

net use D: \\your_pc_name\documents

Hope that can help.

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As described here, with subst you can map a drive to a local folder temporarily (which means, after a reboot it is gone).

But there is another way to create a permanent drive mapped to a local folder.

Right-click to create a new text file (let's name it MapDriveD.txt). Paste the following into it (Note that the first line must be exactly Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 followed by a blank line):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices]
"D:"="\??\C:\Users\myWinUser\Documents"

The local Windows user name (here: myWinUser) and its related path C:\Users\myWinUser\Documents need to exist.

Then, rename .txt to .reg and finally run MapDriveD.reg with elevated (administrator) rights, for example from an administrator command prompt.

After a reboot, you will have a permanent drive D: which points diretly into C:\Users\myWinUser\Documents.

Note: Of course, if you remove \\Documents in the .reg file, you can also map drive D: to C:\Users\myWinUser, and then you have the path D:\Documents you asked for.

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