Can't get iDisk to reconnect at startup? Here's the answer.

Like many of you I have been struggling with getting iDisk to reconnect as a network drive on start up. I've found the solution. The problem is that windows will not reconnect a network drive if it requires authentication. The solution is to make a simple .bat batch file and put a shortcut to it in your startup folder in the start menu. To make the batch file:


1) create a new text file

2) put in the text file the following (feel free to copy and paste)

net use K: "\\idisk.me.com\YOURUSERNAME" YOURPASSWORD /USER:"YOURUSERNAME" /Persistent:No

Note you can make the K: any open drive letter you want, the user name is with out the @me.com and password is just the password. Only alter the drive letter, YOURUSERNAME and YOURPASSWORD sections to match your account, do not add or remove spaces.

3) save the text file and rename it to WHATEVERYOUWANT.bat you'll get a warning about changing the extension, just ignore it.

4) move the .bat file to it's permanent location (I used c:\) then create a shortcut to it and move that shortcut to the startup folder on you start menu. If you don't want to see the command prompt on boot just edit the shortcut properties and select run: minimized.

if it still won't work then your network connection may not be starting as fast as the batchfile, just add the line

ping -n 30 localhost

as the first line in the batch file, you can change the 30 to a higher or lower number as you need to, it equals roughly the same number of seconds in delay before it mounts your iDisk.

That's it, your iDisk will now be mounted when windows starts up. I'm still working on automated sync, but so far I'm using Microsoft SyncToy 2.0, it's not automatic but can be scheduled to sync when you boot and at points throughout the day. Anyone have a better sync solution?