Unmounted drive keeps re-mounting itself after every computer restart

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#1

Overview

Sync/Drive v2.72
Windows 10

Issue

I don’t use the mounted drive, I just use Icedrive for automated backup, but every time I unmount the drive, it’s mounted again after restarting. There doesn’t seem to be a way to disable this in the app’s settings.

#2

Hey @zachTheFrog you can change this by setting the drive app to not open on start up in your desktop client. Additionally, you can do this by going to your task manager and then going to your start up menu and then disable any app you do not wish to open on start up.

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#3

@Chris That is not what I meant.

I want the Icedrive drive app to automatically start and run backups daily, however I do not want the drive mounted in “My PC,” as I never use it. Currently there is an option to manually unmount the drive under the “mount,” tab of the app, but it never stays unmounted after a restart.

#4

Same problem here : the app launches on Windows startup (as expected), to manage the sync, but there is no way to prevent it from mounting the drive (which I don’t use).

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#5

Thanks for the feedback. We’ll consider this for the new drive app that we’re developing which is currently still in it’s initial beta test.

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#6

Has the feature of not having the virtual drive being mounted automatically arrived? Trying to achieve this as I too want my backup syncing to start with Windows startup, but I don’t want the virtual drive (which I unmount daily).

#7

No, it’s still the same. Immensely annoying.

I have no idea why anyone would consider it a good idea to have an auto-mount option that can’t be turned off.

#8

@Starfighter @FrankS For me it works fine nowadays: the virtual drive is never mounted automatically. This applies to versions 3.14 and 3.20, on Windows 10.

#9

Perhaps it’s a Windows 11-thing then, because here it’s been automatically mounting on both 3.14 and 3.20.

#10

I have tried to influence Icedrive for 3+ years to quit making decisions on how users use their application and start adding options to the settings at the pair level and global settings at the app level. Pair settings override global settings. The continual making assumptions everyone uses the product same way is what caused us to get here today with so many problems. That said,…

I hear your use case, but to my point, above I want the exact opposite. I have icedrive to start at windows startup and I want it to auto mount the virtual drive and unlock the encrypted folder as well at startup. With everything mounted, the sync app queues up the files to synch and the icedrive app then synchs the files to icedrive in the cloud without any intervention on my part.

So, Icedrive, please note different users with different use cases requires unique setting options to achieve the end user experience.

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#11

Yeah, exactly. It should be an option.

There’s a button for manually mounting and unmounting, so how hard can it be to add a checkbox for it to the options?

#12

I checked it again and yeah, automatically mounting here on Windows 11 too.

#13

Still happening in 3.21.