Windows 10: Windows 11 File History won't work with network drive

I'm using Windows 11 with the latest updates.I want to use a network drive from a Mac mounted as q: as drive from File History.I can perfectly access the network drive with the File Explorer and can use any other software to read/write data on it.When I select it as s drive in file history I get the error "0x80070002 the system cannot find the file specified"

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File History drive

Hi Joseph,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

I would like to inform you that if your File History drive has been disconnected for too long, or it doesn't have enough space to save temporary versions of your files. To continue saving copies of your files, you'll need to reconnect your File History drive.
Plug in your external File History drive or reselect your network. You can start a backup manually or wait for the next scheduled backup or reselect the drive. Here is the steps:

To manually start a backup

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  Open File History by pressing Windows key> type File History
  > Click on File History.
  
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  Tap or click Back up now.
  

To reselect your drive

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  Open File History by pressing Windows key> type File History
  > Click on File History.
  
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  Tap or click Select drive.
  
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  On the Select a File History drive page, tap or click your current drive or network location, and then tap or click
  OK.
  

Hope it helps. Let us know if you need more help and we'll be glad to assist.

 

Keep File History Working But Remove Drive Letter (Hide in Explorer)

File history won't recognize a drive without a drive letter. At first I thought that you might be able to mount the file history drive to a mount point, but that by itself doesn't work.

However, File History will work with a network share, so I have a kind of crazy idea for a workaround. I tested this and it seems to work.

1) Remove the drive letter from the File History drive and mount it to a mount point instead.

2) Share the drive by creating a network share to it.

3) Configure File History to backup to a network share. Point it to that network share that you just created.

At this point the drive will no longer show up in File Explorer since it does not have a drive letter but file history will still be able to access the drive.

If you need detailed steps for the above please let me know. I'll be happy to provide detailed steps.

If anyone else has other ideas, feel free to jump in.

 

File History - Cannot "Add a Drive" again after selecting "Stop using drive"

pizzle101,

There is a work around.

Create a new folder in the existing drive or you can select the drive that you need and share it on the network and give permission to everyone and then follow these steps

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  Enter File History in the search box, and then tap or click
  File History.
  
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  Tap or click Select drive.
  
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  On the Change your File History drive page, do one of the following:
  
  • 
    Select a network location, tap or click Add network location, browse to or enter a location, tap or click
    Select folder, and then tap or click OK.
    
  • 
    In the network location \\127.0.0.1 and select the shared drive.
    
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  When you're asked, tap or click Yes to copy all of the versions of your files to the new drive.