B4J Question URI for networked drives on Windows

Didier99 · 2026-04-09T20:03:47+0100

One of the things that drives (pun intended) me nuts with Windows is the use of drive letters as shortcuts to network path.
I understand the convenience within the scope of a single user, but since there is no enforcement that all users on a network use the same drive letter for a given resource, it's very hard to reliably share resource locations across users.
The point is that when I select a file, I would like to get the absolute network path as URI instead of a relative path to a drive letter.

Erel · 2026-04-10T06:23:23+0100

I think that your best option is to run "net use" with jShell:

B4X:

Private Sub Button1_Click
    Wait For (NetUse) Complete (StdOut As String)
End Sub

Private Sub NetUse As ResumableSub
    Dim s As Shell
    s.Initialize("s", "net", Array("use"))
    s.Run(60000)
    Wait For (s) s_ProcessCompleted (Success As Boolean, ExitCode As Int, StdOut As String, StdErr As String)
    Log($"ExitCode: ${ExitCode}, StdOut: ${StdOut}, StdErr: ${StdOut}"$)
    Return StdOut
End Sub

I don't have any mapped network drive here, so can't help you with parsing. Post the output if need assistance with this.

B4J Question URI for networked drives on Windows

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