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Chips147
Chips147

Reputation: 645

Error "UNC paths are not supported - trying to run a batch file in a network directory

The full error message is:

'\192.168.0.10\drive - 3TB\Libraries\Videos-3TB\movies' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. The network path was not found.

I'm just trying to save all file names into a text file by running the batch file from the parent folder in the network:

@echo off
tree /f /a > Listfile.txt
pause > nul

You experts will solve this in two seconds, if you would be so kind. Please.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 30189

Answers (3)

Serenity
Serenity

Reputation: 1918

Why you can't is because programs started in cmd with a network directory as current crash if the CMD is closed. You can do in some roundabout way, but as you see the correct way works best.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

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Upvotes: -2

Loïc MICHEL
Loïc MICHEL

Reputation: 26150

you could also map a network drive 

net use z: "\\192.168.0.10\drive - 3TB\Libraries\Videos-3TB\movies"
pushd z:
tree /f /a > Listfile.txt

Upvotes: 2

Chips147
Chips147

Reputation: 645

Fixed it by running the file from a local directory and pointing to where it was located before when i got the error

@echo off

tree "\\192.168.0.10\Berry - 3TB\Libraries\Videos-3TB\movies" /f /a > Listfile.txt

pause > nul

Upvotes: 1

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