Windows 7 Tip: Mount your MobileMe iDisk as a network drive

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Windows 7 Tip: Mount your MobileMe iDisk as a network drive

Thursday, 30^th July, 2009, Uncategorized

1) Open “Computer”

2) Click on “Map Network Drive” at the top (under the path/location area)

3) Select the drive letter you want it to be connected under.

4) In the folder name entry area you want to enter:

http://idisk.me.com/[username]

IE: http://idisk.me.com/law1983

4) Enable “Connect using different credentials”

5) Click ‘OK’

6) Enter your me username and password, enable saving of the information then proceed.

You’re done! You should see the new network location inside of “Computer

17 Comments so far

Elmer Thomas on September 26, 2009 10:14 pm
Worked perfectly for me under Windows 7 Build 7100. Thanks!
Richare on October 30, 2009 6:39 pm
Works perfect and fast
JW on November 26, 2009 5:54 pm
Just what I was looking for, thanks!
Andi on December 8, 2009 10:24 pm
Works great! This is so helpful. Thanks.
Joe on January 8, 2010 8:12 pm
Perfect for backing up Windows 7!! THANK YOU!
Jack on January 10, 2010 12:58 am
thank you thank you thank you
Mattze on January 17, 2010 9:13 am
YEAH! That’s it. Solves a real nasty problem I had for a long time. THANKS!
T Pollard on January 20, 2010 8:43 pm
Great tip, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Hedi on January 31, 2010 10:10 pm
Hi,

Is there a way to make it available even when you are offline?

Thanks
lawrencealan on February 3, 2010 2:59 pm
Hedi — I actually don’t even use the above service any longer, I just use Windows Live Sync — http://www.foldershare.com/ — there is an OSX client as well as a Windows client. It syncs folders between computers, making local copies on each.
Dan on February 11, 2010 5:27 pm
Thanks for the instructions! I assume with http that this link is unencrypted. I tried with https (“https://idisk.me.com/[username]“) and it worked, but the link is very slow… Any thoughts? Or does the network drive mounting encrypt the communication to/from iDisk? I would not want my connection to iDisk to be unencrypted…
lawrencealan on February 18, 2010 8:03 pm
Dan,
I honestly don’t have an answer for that, I also had speed issues with mine… I ended up switching completely over to Windows Live Sync.
Ken Smith on June 21, 2010 10:53 pm
I tried this and usually can map drives without trouble, but in I get the following error after I enter my credentials. The Mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred. The File cannot be accessed by the system.

I am using my me user name for User Name when entering my credentials. In your example that is law1983.

I really want this to work, it sounds VERY cool. Thanks
Dave on July 15, 2010 9:37 am
Thanks a lot for that Info!
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jimmy on August 3, 2010 9:03 pm
is there a similar way to map ‘public’ folder on idisk. so instead of http://idisk.me.com/username,
i want to mount http://public.me.com/username

i have been using a friends public folder to facilitate a project, and i tried to follow these directions for the public folder but could not map it as a drive.

thanks
Larry on August 24, 2010 7:57 pm
Looks like you can’t use \Z:\ which was the default on my PC. I couldn’t get the logon to work (credentials), but I knew they were correct. The only think I could think to do was change the drive. Changed it to \M:\ and it worked great.