
To change the settings, make sure, you disconnect the drives first, by tapping on the stop button, present beside the gear icon. Just click on ‘OK’ when you are done changing all the settings. You can decide, whether you want to connect the devices at startup, the drive letter, drive label, and other settings. Once that is done, Windows Explorer will automatically open the contents of the cloud storage, where you can view or modify the files.Ĭlick on the small gear icon corresponding to the cloud storage account, and change the settings if you want to. You will see the following page in your browser window, once the authentication is complete, and RaiDrive has got access to all the files. Now a new browser window will open, where you will have to login or choose the account, which you want to use for logging in, and then click on ‘Allow’ once you agree with the permissions, RaiDrive is asking for. Step 5: Authenticate Cloud drive with Windows RaiDrive *Though you can even change the drive letter, drive label and other settings, later on. Choose the drive letter, which is ‘ Z: ’ by default, the drive label, and other details, after which, click on ‘OK’. Just choose your preferred cloud storage platform, which is Google Drive in my case. Step 4: Select the Cloud Drive to map on Windows Thus, the catalogue of supported services is quite satisfactory. RaiDrive presently supports Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SFTP, Google Photos, WebDAV, and FTP. Now tap on ‘Add’ as shown in the screenshot below, to add your cloud storage drives one by one. Once the installation is complete, open the ‘RaiDrive’ program directly from the desktop. Step 3: Open the RaiDrive to map cloud drive Once that is complete, click on ‘Finish’ to exit the installer.
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Now let the installer download and install the necessary programs and services.
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So without further delay, let’s jump into how you can install and start using RaiDrive, a free and open source application for mapping Cloud storage drives as local dive on My Computer.

It allows to Map WebDAV/FTP/SFTP, Router, Google Drive (Team Drive, Photos), OneDrive and Dropbox to a Network Drive on File Explorer. RaiDrive being open-source, new features are added to it regularly to make it rich with features. Even though it is open source, it doesn’t miss out any features, which you can find in CloudMounter or NetDrive. You will not have to pay a single penny to use RaiDrive, which makes it worth trying out. RaiDrive is quite easy to use and is as simple as CloudMounter and NetDrive, and the bottom line is, it is free. So, I have come up with an open-source alternative of CloudMounter and NetDrive, which can help you access your cloud storage accounts as a mapped drive on Windows. RaiDrive is the best alternative to CloudMounter and NetDrive because neither of is free, and you will have to pay the developers a one time charge if you want to use it forever.


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If you are suffering from the same problem, I have already written an article on how to use CloudMounter and NetDrive to access your cloud storage accounts as a mapped drive on Windows. But technology always comes with a solution. On a low capacity SSD, it is quite difficult to spare some expensive gigabytes on it to sync your cloud storage accounts.
