subst! I think the last time I used that was to spoof mounting CDs on my old Dos machine.
Thanks for the tips. After some fiddling, it seems to work really well
- if I run subst as administrator, it doesn’t reflect my local user, run subst as a local user
- subst isn’t persistent so needs to be re-run on boot. People looking for a permanent solution should put a startup script.
This works really well. Both the folder AND the subst mapped drive works with my backup software and everything else, where mounting as a drive directly doesn’t. Further, some programs can’t see the mapped folder (e.g., pycharm), but can see the subst drive. Great!