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MyDrive as network drive

Connect your MyDrive account directly with your computer and access your files just like a local drive.

Click on your operating system below and follow the instructions.

Instructions:

Windows
Using Explorer

Windows 10 and above:
  1. Open the Start menu
  2. Right-click Computer and select Map network drive...
  3. Choose the drive letter you want to use
  4. Enter https://webdav.mydrive.ch as folder path
  5. Enter your MyDrive username and password in the login popup (may appear several times)

    Increase the 50MB file limit of Windows (for download and copy)
    1. Press Windows + R, type regedit in the open box, and then click Ok.
    2. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters\ from the drop-down structure in the left pane.
    3. Double click FileSizeLimitInBytes in the right pane.
    4. Click the Decimal bubble under the Base section.
    5. In the Value data box, type 4294967295, and then click Ok.
    6. Reboot your computer.


Note: You can also use the following command to map the network drive in a script:
  • net use Z: https://webdav.mydrive.ch/ /user:USERNAME PASSWORD /persistent:yes
Using NetDrive
  1. Download and install NetDrive
  2. Start NetDrive from your start menu
  3. Click on the "+" sign at the bottom right
  4. Select WebDAV as the storage type
  5. Click on connect
  6. Enter webdav.mydrive.ch as URL
  7. Check the SSL box
  8. Enter your MyDrive credentials at Username and Password
  9. Click OK
  10. You should now have a new network drive in Explorer where you can access your MyDrive files
Other clients and tools
  • AxCrypt – encrypt your files (free, use in combination with NetDrive, WebDrive, or Explorer network drive)
  • BitKinex – free WebDAV, FTP and SFTP client
  • Cyberduck – free WebDAV, FTP and SFTP client
  • GoodSync – synchronizes and backs up files such as photos, videos, music and much more
  • Syncovery – backup and synchronization program (commercial software)
  • WebDrive – recommended for creating and editing documents (commercial software)
Mac OS X
Using Cyberduck
  1. Download Cyberduck and install it
  2. Run Cyberduck from your Dock or Applications folder
    1. Click Open Connection
    2. Select WebDAV (HTTP/SSL) as protocol
    3. Enter webdav.mydrive.ch as Server
    4. Enter your MyDrive credentials next to Username and Password
    5. Click Connect to establish the connection
Using Finder
  1. Click Finder → Go → Connect to Server...
  2. Enter https://webdav.mydrive.ch as Server Address
  3. Click Connect
Other clients
  • GoodSync – synchronizes and backs up files such as photos, videos, music and much more
  • Transmit – WebDAV, FTP and SFTP client (commercial software)
Linux / BSD / etc.
Using Gnome
  1. Click Places → Connect to Server...
  2. Select WebDAV (HTTP) or Secure WebDAV (HTTPS) as Server type
  3. Enter webdav.mydrive.ch as Server
  4. Click Connect
Using KDE
  1. Open the location webdav://webdav.mydrive.ch in Dolphin or Konqueror
Using davfs2

With davfs2 you can mount your MyDrive storage as a local filesystem.

  • Run mount.davfs --help for information on basic usage
  • You can add an entry to /etc/fstab as follows:

    https://webdav.mydrive.ch /path/to/mountpoint davfs defaults,user,rw 0 0

  • To mount the filesystem as normal user make sure you're in the group davfs2 (the group may be named differently in your distribution), and the SUID bit is set on mount.davfs
  • If you don't want to enter your credentials every time, you can add them to /etc/davfs2/secrets or ~/.davfs2/secrets
  • To improve performance, you can set the option use_locks 0 in /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf

Please refer to the manpages mount.davfs(8) and davfs2.conf(5) for further information.

Other clients
  • cadaver – command-line WebDAV client