This is so you can assign a shortcut to the program and be able to via %1 (see registry instructions below)Ĭlipboard.SetText(Pathing.GetUNCPath(args)) be called from the context menu, the context menu will pass it Takes the parameter from the command line.
So the solution I came up with (by copying someone else's code) was a little C# program that you can call from a context menu in Explorer and will allow you to translate the Mapped drive letter to the actual UNC path. The problem here is that one may map a network share to Drive Y whereas someone else in the organization may have the same network share mapped as Drive X therefore, sending a link such as Y:\mydirectory may not work for anyone else except me.Īs the OP explains, Explorer does show the actual path in the Explorer bar, but you cannot copy it (typing is tedious and prone to errors, so this is not an option) even if you choose copy as path from the context menu: I just had the need for the same thing OP is asking and after searching on Google and reading the answers, none of them provided what I think the OP and I are looking for.
I've not tried this, but it could be solution for those who are prohibited from installing normally. Update: As of version 12.0, a new "portable" installer is available on the above site, which installs only for the current user into the AppData\Local folder. It's great for emailing users in your company who have access to a network path, and if they have the same network mapping as you, you can choose the former, otherwise you can use the latter. You can also choose to show only one or two lines on the base context menu, for example you can have two lines, Copy Long Path, and Copy Long UNC Path. I had exactly the same problem - not everyone had the same mapped drives as me, or mapped to the same letters.Īfter much searching I found a context menu extension named Path Copy Copy on GitHub ( ) which is an extended version of a similar, older extension (called Pathcopy) has quite a few options for copying paths as text, including one for UNC paths - example of the options available are shown below: Sure my emailed path might eventually break because I'm losing the drive letter indirection but that's OK with me. I could just make a separate network location and then ignore my Q: drive but that's inconvenient (and they do it so they can move accounts across servers). I know I could just set up mapped network locations instead of the mapped drives for the ones that I set up personally and avoid this problem, but most of the mapped drives like the "users" share come from our corporate IT policy and can't be overridden. Is there a way to say "hey man copy that path as text with the \\cartman\users\emueller not the Q: in it?"
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In Explorer it clearly knows the full path - in the address bar I see "Computer -> emueller (\\cartman\users) (Q:) ->". This is unhelpful to others, who would need to see \\cartman\users\emueller\foo.doc to be able to consume the link. When I copy the file path (shift+right click, "copy as path") it gets the file name "Q:\foo.doc" in the clipboard.
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What I'd like to be able to do is to copy the full real path (not the drive letter) from Windows Explorer to send to folks.Įxample: I have a file in my "Q:" drive, \\cartman\users\emueller, and I want to send a link to the file foo.doc therein to coworkers.
We have a lot of mapped drives here, both ones we set up ourselves and ones set up by our IT overlords. I frequently want to share Windows network paths to files with other folks on my team via email or chat.
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