Powershell cannot switch to network drive CMD can ?? Powershell gurus please

Hi folks
I've a network drive which in Windows is connected as Drive Z

In cmd I can switch to directory Z:\ and operate on it

In powershell I'm just trying to list the directory on it but doesn't recognixe the "Z" drive.

Same if I use set location Z:

Any way round this or have I got the wrong command :





Cheers

jimbo

I think PS requires you to assign a drive letter to a physical drive within the PS environment Not my strong suit but this may help you

barman58 said:

I think PS requires you to assign a drive letter to a physical drive within the PS environment Not my strong suit but this may help you

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Hi there
I need this as part of a script -- it's fine for "Local" disks but seems to fail for Network drives.

I'm trying to get a quick way of loading folder and file names with some attributes into some type of text file -- the Power Query in EXCEL takes a bit long when you've got HDD's of several TB's and want file details. !!! I'm tring to clear some big network shared drives so I thought using a powershell script would be quick and easy -- EXCEL powerquery can take around 15 mins if there's a load of data !! Or longer in the case of this -- I interrupted it after 25 mins just copying the TEXT -- no data loading from the query.



For example - this one has over 36,000 entries




I like EXCEL but doing this sort of stuff on a fairly low specced laptop isn't always the best of fun !!!! (Anybody got a spare CRAY lying around please !!!).

The output is great in EXCEL but needs to be done in smaller chunks !!

I've just about the patience on this laptop to do it in around 12,000 rows at a time -- I don't know who codes how these queries work in EXCEL but I'm sure the coding could be done more efficiently though. Nothing else matches the convenience of this but Ms seems to make it hideously hard for people do do this task . I can't be the only one around "Tidying up disks" !!! especially large network shared ones. You can also add attributes like created by / owner as well which is useful in deciding what to get rid of.




Cheers

jimbo

Try running Powershell not elevated , try running it without Run as administrator


A Guy

A Guy said:

Try running Powershell not elevated , try running it without Run as administrator

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Thanks !!

seems bonkers to me as I'm doing stuff I wouldn't want an ordinary user to be on !!! Maintaining and tidying up networked shared drives.

Cheers
jimbo

I see the same issue in Win11 Pro using the 'new' Terminal as Administrator in not seeing my NAS but Command Prompt works to show my NAS.