# Struggles with getting onedrive mounted on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Help and Support\ **Created:** [April 26, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419 "2022-04-26T19:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Friendly](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b5e925/32.png) [@Friendly](https://forum.rclone.org/u/Friendly)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/1 "2022-04-26T19:06:19Z")
Hi there, I wanted to get rclone as a way to have my onedrive purely in the cloud vs. saving a copy to my PC. I have been trying to get it to mount on startup, first using a windows scheduler which was super annoying to have the cmd running all the time. Instead I saw nssm as a good solution, but I can not get it to actually work. Ofc I am adding the correct path, but under arguments it seems everyone has a different suggestion. To just get onedrive working I can do "rclone mount one-drive: Z:" for example. But putting just mount one-drive: Z: as the argument does not work. Neither does adding in the -vfs stuff or adding in the -config? Which idk if its a problem, but my config file seems to have been put in my appdata folder? After each attempt, I try to go under services to manually start it to see if it was successful. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/u/asdffdsa)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/2 "2022-04-26T19:18:34Z")
hello and welcome to the forum, > [@Friendly](#): > > windows scheduler which was super annoying to have the cmd running all the time. i use task scheduler, to run `rclone mount` command, always works, never had issues. and easy to run any task, using the command line or script. fwiw, never would try to run `rclone.exe mount`. with task scheduler or nssm, always execute a .cmd batch file, and the .cmd file will run the actual `rclone mount` so, is the issue that the command prompt windows stays open? there are workarounds for that ---
**Author:** ![Friendly](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b5e925/32.png) [@Friendly](https://forum.rclone.org/u/Friendly)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/3 "2022-04-26T19:24:56Z")
Thanks for the help, yeah the problem is just that it stays open. So in task scheduler you mean to suggest selecting cmd as a the program and make the argument rclone mount? ---
**Author:** ![asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/u/asdffdsa)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/4 "2022-04-26T19:33:48Z")
> [@Friendly](#): > > the problem is just that it stays open could try `--no-console Hide console window (supported on Windows only)` could try ![image](https://forum.rclone.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/86225bc2ed333fd5b35d407c5c82c0069182cd4e.png) and when i use task scheduler, nssm, autohotkey, etc, to run command hidden all the time. to run a task `C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "rclone\cloud.daily"` and to create a windows desktop shortcut or desktop icon, create a shortcut lnk ![image](https://forum.rclone.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/264bf37b7cb10bc17a775f08971fc3f294508192.png) ---
**Author:** ![asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/u/asdffdsa)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/5 "2022-04-26T19:44:50Z")
> [@Friendly](#): > > Which idk if its a problem, but my config file seems to have been put in my appdata folder? are you asking about location of the rclone config file? ---
**Author:** ![Friendly](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b5e925/32.png) [@Friendly](https://forum.rclone.org/u/Friendly)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/6 "2022-04-26T19:49:51Z")
Ah wow thank your for your detailed response! For the config file I was just wondering if that was screwing something up, as it seems to have been put in appdata vs. .config. Regarding your advice, I made a .bat file which just contains rclone mount one-drive: Z: and I set auto scheduler to run it. This works vs. selecting the rclone.exe and adding the mounting as an argument. Though I end up at the same place with cmd running when I logon in order to keep the drive connected. To hide the cmd screen, do you mean put "--no-console Hide console window" in the argument line of the task scheduler? ---
**Author:** ![asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@asdffdsa](https://forum.rclone.org/u/asdffdsa)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/7 "2022-04-26T19:55:51Z")
`rclone mount --no-console` ---
**Author:** ![Friendly](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b5e925/32.png) [@Friendly](https://forum.rclone.org/u/Friendly)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/8 "2022-04-26T19:58:39Z")
Ahhh thanks! haha otherwise what ended up just now working too is making a vbs script, that points to the .bat file which has the mount. Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Users\mat\Documents\rclone-v1.58.0-windows-amd64\Autostart.bat" & Chr(34), 0 Set WshShell = Nothing ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.rclone.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/39ad3235f6ffec76ccd0c81616bd55697b4c300d.png) [@system](https://forum.rclone.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/struggles-with-getting-onedrive-mounted-on-windows/30419/9 "2022-04-29T19:59:12Z")
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