jfilechooser problems on networked drives

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Scott Bolland - 04 Nov 2003 04:03 GMT

Hey Guys,

I cannot seem to get JFileChooser to detect files/folders in networked
drives under windows. Any suggestions in getting around this problem would
be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Scott.

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Babu Kalakrishnan - 04 Nov 2003 11:42 GMT

> Hey Guys,
>
> I cannot seem to get JFileChooser to detect files/folders in networked
> drives under windows. Any suggestions in getting around this problem would
> be greatly appreciated.

If I recall correctly, Network Neighbourhood does appear as an entry
among the root drives (and you can browse the network from there)- at
least in JDK 1.4.2 I'm not sure if this feature existed in JDK 1.3, but
I think you could still access them by explicitly switching to a known
network path (starting with the "\\\\" string).

May be this is true for only some flavours of WinXX / JDK combinations,
but I'm certain I have seen it work..

In the worst case, try mapping the network path to a drive.

BK

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Steve W. Jackson - 04 Nov 2003 15:22 GMT

>:Scott Bolland wrote:
>:> Hey Guys,
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>:
>:BK

That's precisely what we found to be the case in our development -- that
1.3.1 and earlier worked only with mapped drives or explicitly typed UNC
style path names. But in 1.4, on both Win2K and XP, the file chooser is
"more robust" and offers network locations all on its own.

= Steve =

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