Jan 31, 2014 · BTW, "Copy as path" comes built-in with Windows (at least 7 & 10) when you use Shift-Right Mouse Click to bring up the extended context menu. Alas, on a mapped drive this also does NOT include the UNC path, either.

May 7, 2010 · There is a way to access a file on a local computer via a UNC-like format without setting up a network share. You can use the following format: \\?\C:\my_path_to_a_file_or_folder to access a file or folder on the local C: drive.

PowerShell doesn't recognize [UNC paths] as "rooted" because they're not on a PSDrive; as such, whatever provider is associated with PowerShell's current location will attempt to handle them. Adding prefix FileSystem:: unambiguously identifies the path as being a FileSystem provider path, irrespective of the provider underlying the current ...

These prefixes are not used as part of the path itself. They indicate that the path should be passed to the system with minimal modification, which means that you cannot use forward slashes to represent path separators, or a period to represent the current directory, or double dots to represent the parent directory.

Aug 24, 2011 · I have a file that I would like to copy from a shared folder which is in a shared folder on a different system, but on the same network. How can I access the folder/file? The usual open () method does not seem to work?

Aug 25, 2018 · I have a windows service that polls a folder continuously for new files.For local directories this works fine.But when it comes to UNC Paths on another system in the same network,the service cannot

Dec 6, 2016 · The command pushd \\Server\Path\ will create a network drive on the machine it is running on like Z:\ , automatically switch to it (like cd /d Z:\) and pushing the path on a stack (relevant for later).

I was using a batch file to access some files from network. I am using pushd \\Network\path to navigate to the networked directory to initiate some scripts My bat file was working perfectly fine till this morning I saw "cmd returning CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories".

Nov 23, 2015 · How can I check if a UNC Path is available? I have the problem that the check takes about half a minute if the share is not available : var fi = new DirectoryInfo(@"\\\\hostname\\samba-sharename\\dire...

In case that this is also your problem, there are three approaches to solve it. you might assign the UNC path to a disk letter, via NET USE NET USE V: \\devexpress\C$ Forfiles -p V:\FULL\ -s -m *.* -d -7 -c "cmd /c del /q @path" You may bypass CMD and directly use some ERASEFILE executable utility directly in the -C option of the FORFILES