How do I go about showing the network drive based path as opposed to the UNC based path in Windows 8.1?

In Windows 7 when the user searched for files on a network drive it displayed results that contained the network drive. In Windows 8.1 these searches yield the UNC path.

For example, Windows 7, if I search for TestFile.docx on Z: it will show a result such as "Z:\SomeFolder\SubFolder\TextFile.docx"

Windows 8.1, if I search for TestFile.docx on Z: it will show a result such as "\\SomeServer\SomeFolder\SubFolder\TextFile.docx"

• Edited by Brian_S45 Monday, March 02, 2015 7:42 PM Formatting

Hi,

Actually, I tested in my Windows 8.1 system, the result is that it does show (example)"Z:\folder" as the search result, like as Windows 7 system, here's the snapshot:

Or am I missunderstanding something? a snapshot from your result would be helpful.

What happens if you unmap the drive, clear all active connections, and then remap the drive before doing anything else? My guess is that there was a session open to the shared folder separate from the mapped drive.

Brandon
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