Board 8 > I have a computer question (Windows 10) (LAN)

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So I just once again was unable to make Windows' network folder sharing work reliably. We've got basically 2 laptops and a desktop that need this ability. There's never a guarantee that one computer will see another one even if the reverse works. While trying to troubleshoot I read stuff suggesting that Microsoft has been trying to phase out the feature to replace with OneDrive or something. Is there a way to make it actually work, or any alternative way to have full access to folders on one computer from one of the others?

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Set it up pn windows 7 and then upgrade to windows 10.

Only half serious here but my sharing settings transferred over fine.

That seems less practical across 3 different computers than it would be otherwise. Apparently there's been a breakthrough as a pinned folder on one laptop still works despite the drive not being visible. So we just need one for each connection.

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Seems like entering an IP address for that purpose brought it right up. I don't know why Windows has to make it difficult. And the troubleshooting steps I found were like messing with the registry and command line stuff and there were way too many to try them all after the first few had no effect.

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