Google Drive - Tally 7.2

mklink /D "C:\Tally7.2\Data\SHARMA_TRACTORS" "C:\Users\Ramesh\Google Drive\TallyBackup\SHARMA_TRACTORS" To Tally 7.2, nothing had changed. It still "saw" its data folder exactly where it expected. But in reality, every time Tally saved a transaction, the files were being written directly into a folder that Google Drive instantly synced to the cloud.

Tally 7.2 never knew about Google Drive. It never needed to. By using file system redirection (symlinks) or simply manual copy-paste, the old DOS-era accounting software became a cloud-native app. Today, thousands of small businesses still run Tally 7.2 (and its cousin, Tally 9) with their data silently syncing to Google Drive—a ghost in the machine, backed up forever. tally 7.2 google drive

The problem wasn't the software. The problem was . mklink /D "C:\Tally7

Two months later, the old beige computer finally gave up—a loud POP , then black silence. Mr. Sharma panicked. Ramesh calmly walked to a new laptop, installed Tally 7.2, opened Google Drive, and copied the SHARMA_TRACTORS folder from the cloud back to C:\Tally7.2\Data . He double-clicked Tally.exe . The password screen appeared. He typed it in. Tally 7

The next morning, Ramesh logged into Tally 7.2 as usual. He entered five invoices. He didn't burn a CD. He didn't remember a USB drive. He just worked.

All the data. Every invoice. Every ledger. It was all there, as if no time had passed.

"That doesn't matter," the nephew explained.