One folder structure with dual boot window7 32 & 64 bit

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Hallo,

I have dualboot configuration two windows 7 partitions 32 and 64, is it possible to make insync from each partition working with same dataset, and configuration? HOW?

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tagging our engineer @dipesh in this so he can help you out with this :smile:

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@Rihards_Kazainis: Do you want to sync to the same physical folder from both the OSes? Unfortunately, this is not supported.

However, since both the OSes are Windows 7 and it is a dual boot set up configuration which means you would never be running both the Insync instances simultaneously, you could try the following workaround:

Warning: We haven’t tested such a setup at our end. So, we recommend that you try it with a test gmail account first

Let’s say the common location accessible from both the Windows OSes is D:\

  1. Create a folder say “D:\Insync AppData” (Make sure that “D:\Insync AppData” is on local drive and not a network Drive)

  2. Create symlinks on both the OSes by opening the command prompt (as Administrator):
    `MKLINK /D “C:\Users[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Insync” “D:\Insync AppData”

(replace the [Username] with the respective Windows Username on both the OSes)

This redirects the Insync installation folder to a common location

  1. Install Insync on one of the Win 7 OSes, add account and setup Insync folder at say “D:\Insync” (or at a network location accessible from both the Win 7 OSes via same path string)

  2. Install Insync on the other Win 7 OS (You will not require to add account on this again) and you are done.

If you lose the context menu/file badges upon auto-update, please re-install Insync over the existing installation (it would not affect the syncing state, Insync will resume from where it last left off)

Let us know how it goes

Thanks