Symptoms

  • Mapped Network Drives / Locations suddenly start failing / Erroring.


Cause


  • Changing credentials / settings within Edge.



Solution


  1. Clear cache and cookies from the dawn of time
  2. Restart Edge
  3. Go to Edge Settings
  4. go to Default browser
  5. Set "Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode (IE mode)" to ALLOW
  6. Add the FULL file path of the URL - for example https://belllightingcouk.sharepoint.com/sites/belllighting.co.uk/BELL%20File%20Repository/Forms/AllItems.aspx
  7. Restart edge again
  8. Open the URLs now tagged as in "IE mode"
  9. Edge should FAIL to open the pages - citing an updated browser is needed.
  10. Go back to the settings to add URLs and Delete any URL in the list.
  11. This should now allow you to access the library through File Explorer as a mapped drive/location drive.