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Copy UNC network path (not drive letter) for paths on mapped drives from Windows Explorer

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Mar 15, 2026474395 views
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I frequently want to share Windows network paths to files with other folks on my team via email or chat. We have a lot of mapped drives here, both ones we set up ourselves and ones set up by our IT overlords. 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. Example: 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. When I copy the file path (shift+right click, "copy as path") it gets the file name "Q:\foo.doc" in the clipboard. This is unhelpful to others, who would need to see \\cartman\users\emueller\foo.doc to be able to consume the link. In Explorer it clearly knows the full path - in the address bar I see "Computer -> emueller (\\cartman\users) (Q:) ->". Is there a way to say "hey man copy that path as text with the \\cartman\users\emueller not the Q: in it?" I know I could just set up mapped network locations instead of the mapped…

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Fix for: Copy UNC network path (not drive letter) for paths on mapped drives from Windows Explorer

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Maybe a long way around but open a cmd window. Then enter command in any folder. It will return all the mapped folders like below (shown as example only) If you want you can send the above output to a file e.g. . Then open the file: and you can copy the path from the file for your use. You can also copy from the command line window itself. Hope this helps.

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