XYplorer Beta Club

After rebooting or logging out and logging back in, I can browse to a mapped drive and its subfolders in Windows Explorer (even going directly to a Favorite subfolder in Vista's Explorer), but when I open XYplorer and try to:

A) open a favorite that points to a subfolder on a mapped drive or B) type a mapped drive's subfolder directly into the address bar (in this case "X:\server\logs"),

I get an error message:

"The location you have selected does not exist. Do you want to create it?" Of course I don't want to click Yes and potentially screw up my existing folder, so I click Cancel.

But then I click on that mapped drive (X in this case) in the tree view, and then try the favorite again, and now it works. (notice the yellow folder icons next to the favorites now? and there is not longer a blue question mark on the X drive icon)

Is XY not seeing my mapped drives until I manually browse to them? Can it automatically do this behind the scenes when I try to access a subfolder, rather than requiring me to click the mapped drive's root in the tree view first?

I've tried toggling a few options in the config ("Advanced -> Assume servers are available" & "Startup -> Cache network servers"), but these seem to make no difference in this case.

I don't believe this was an issue until recently, but I haven't been using XY much lately.

Any ideas? Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Thanks for the help!

I'll check that.

BTW, it's very unpleasant to debug, because the state "non-connected network drive" (translated from German) is extremely volatile. One access to the drive and I have to reboot to get back to the virgin state. Or does anybody know a trick to get those little question marks back without rebooting?

Should work better in the latest BETA (v9.30.0024).

admin wrote:One access to the drive and I have to reboot to get back to the virgin state. Or does anybody know a trick to get those little question marks back without rebooting?

net use x: /DELETE, perhaps?

Or mount a folder on a different computer and jank out the cable.

Or mount a partition in a folder, share the folder, rename the folder.

admin wrote:Should work better in the latest BETA (v9.30.0024).

Problem is still present in 9.40 (which I'm guessing supersedes 9.30.x beta versions) - although I'm now getting a "prohibited" icon (red circle with a slash) rather than a blue plus icon on the drives. This is what I see when I select my favorite for the folder "Scans" on the H drive:
And the yellow folder icons are missing for any favorites under those drives. Yet after I click on the drive icon, it instantly "sees" it and the favorites work again after that (until next reboot).

Are there any other settings (aside from the two I mentioned in my previous post) that I can try checking/unchecking that might affect this?

Could you possibly make it quickly "touch" the drive (simulate the user manually clicking the drive's icon) to make sure that the drive/subfolder isn't present before popping up the "Create Location" dialog?

Thanks for trying to sort this out ;) Once again, this is a minor nitpick on some otherwise great software!

After vacation...