# How to sync existing folders?

**URL:** <https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-sync-existing-folders/2885>\
**Category:** Pydio Cells\
**Created:** [October 30, 2019, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-sync-existing-folders/2885 "2019-10-30T08:41:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![fromage9747](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@fromage9747](https://forum.pydio.com/u/fromage9747)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-sync-existing-folders/2885/1 "2019-10-30T08:41:49Z")

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I first found this thread: [[SOLVED] How to sync existing folders?](https://forum.pydio.com/t/solved-how-to-sync-existing-folders/1452)

I didn’t want to repost in it as its marked as solved.

I have a network drive that I have mounted to my Pydio server. I have added it as a data source and created a workspace for it.

This drive already has 1tb of my personal photos and videos.

All I get from Pydio is the chrome dev tools is that it’s not able to load the data source.

What am I doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![zayn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a87d85/32.png) [@zayn](https://forum.pydio.com/u/zayn)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-sync-existing-folders/2885/2 "2019-11-07T09:34:04Z")

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Hello @fromage9747,

Could you tell me how you mounted the network drive.

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**Author:** ![fromage9747](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@fromage9747](https://forum.pydio.com/u/fromage9747)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-sync-existing-folders/2885/3 "2019-11-07T11:20:05Z")

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@zayn It’s being mounted at boot using cifs

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**Author:** ![zayn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a87d85/32.png) [@zayn](https://forum.pydio.com/u/zayn)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-sync-existing-folders/2885/4 "2019-11-07T11:58:53Z")

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could you try to mount it inside a subfolder, for instance

- if you have `/mnt/my-network-drive`
- create a folder `/mnt/myshare/`and mount it to `/mnt/myshare/my-network-drive`.

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**Author:** ![fromage9747](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@fromage9747](https://forum.pydio.com/u/fromage9747)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/how-to-sync-existing-folders/2885/5 "2019-11-07T12:23:35Z")

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@zayn I’ll give it a try