Re: use a drives guid instead of its letter - where is the drive root ?
VanguardLH <[email protected]>
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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.