Network Drives Missing On Reboot

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jtruchon
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Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by jtruchon »

XY ver: 25.00.0100
Win 11 22H2

Rebooted two days ago and I when I started XY all my network drives/links were missing; they show up in File Explore. I reset all the drives in XY (Map Network Drives) and all was fine, I even shut down and restarted XY and the network drives were there. I just rebooted this morning and the network drives were missing again. Only seems to happen on a reboot.

Thanks
- JohnT

phred
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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by phred »

Have you enabled this?
Configuration > General > Safety Belts, Network > Network > cache network servers

jtruchon
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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by jtruchon »

@phred, thanks for the suggestion. Tried checking "Cache Network Servers" and it didn't work. I rebooted and mapped network drives were gone again
- JohnT

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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

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When mapping the drives initially, did you tick the box "Reconnect at sign-in" as shown below?
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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by phred »

Sorry jtruchon, that's the only suggestion I have. Although I admit I should've mentioned what RalphM mentioned and hope it's that simple a fix.

jtruchon
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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by jtruchon »

Yes, "Reconnect" is checked, and when I reboot the network drives are connected and show in File Explorer. This is very strange, been using XY for years and never had this problem. The only things that changed is the Win 11 update: 2023-09 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5030310). Maybe this is the issue.

Thanks
- JohnT

jungletek
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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by jungletek »

I think I'm seeing the same thing after rebooting after the latest Windows (10) update pushed this past tuesday.

Drives are mapped in Windows, and show up in Explorer, but trying to access e.g. X:\, Y:\, Z:\ fails in XYplorer, while using the UNC path instead works.

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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by Horst »

jungletek wrote: 14 Oct 2023 06:31 I think I'm seeing the same thing after rebooting after the latest Windows (10) update pushed this past tuesday.

Drives are mapped in Windows, and show up in Explorer, but trying to access e.g. X:\, Y:\, Z:\ fails in XYplorer, while using the UNC path instead works.
That means you are running XY with a different user account
as the one which maps the drives.
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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

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Drives are mapped in Windows, and show up in Explorer, but trying to access e.g. X:\, Y:\, Z:\ fails in XYplorer, while using the UNC path instead works
But you can access the drive letters in Windows Explorer?

If yes, to resolve that problem:

Fully remove the mapped drives
Add this registry key via an elevated command prompt:

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REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "EnableLinkedConnections" /t REG_DWORD /d "0x00000001" /f
Reboot
Recreate the mappings

Try it again in XY...
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jtruchon
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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by jtruchon »

@highend, Thank you, adding the Registry Key fixed it for me. Rebooted and XY is showing map drive :D
- JohnT

jungletek
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Re: Network Drives Missing On Reboot

Post by jungletek »

jtruchon wrote: 16 Oct 2023 03:03 @highend, Thank you, adding the Registry Key fixed it for me. Rebooted and XY is showing map drive :D
Forgot to let you guys know: same here. Thanks!

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