Re: use a drives guid instead of its letter - where is the drive root ?

VanguardLH <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general
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R.Wieser <[email protected]> wrote:

> You could do worse than to explain how you hopped from a drive GUID to
> an UNC ...

The syntax you cited is for UNC (Uniform Naming Convention) which is a
Microsoft-ism on Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(computing)#Universal_Naming_Convention
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats#unc-paths
https://www.lifewire.com/unc-universal-naming-convention-818230
and more online articles

> Alas, I already tried [.. for parent folder] and it didn't work.

I expected that moving back from the resource pointer wouldn't work, but
it's a shot worth trying.
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