Network drives disconnected/not allowed/error
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Modified on: Thu, 3 Apr, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Symptoms
- Mapped Network Drives / Locations suddenly start failing / Erroring.
Cause
- Changing credentials / settings within Edge.
Solution
- Clear cache and cookies from the dawn of time
- Restart Edge
- Go to Edge Settings
- go to Default browser
- Set "Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode (IE mode)" to ALLOW
- Add the FULL file path of the URL - for example https://belllightingcouk.sharepoint.com/sites/belllighting.co.uk/BELL%20File%20Repository/Forms/AllItems.aspx
- Restart edge again
- Open the URLs now tagged as in "IE mode"
- Edge should FAIL to open the pages - citing an updated browser is needed.
- Go back to the settings to add URLs and Delete any URL in the list.
- This should now allow you to access the library through File Explorer as a mapped drive/location drive.
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