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Drop-down Explorer menu causes "Drive D: does not exist"

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bankboysb

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Jun 7, 2004
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What we have is two machines among 250+ that have this little Explorer glitch. The message "Drive D: does not exist or is not accessible" pops up every time the user tries to navigate to a networked drive using the DROP-DOWN "Look In" explorer menu from the Save or Save As dialog box. This only happens using the drop-down, it does not occur under any other circumstance. The user are trying to save Word and Excel files, although this problem is not limited to just Office files.

I have narrowed this down since I posted this on two other occasions (threads 68-967454, 68-856816). As I mentioned in those posts I thought it might be related to the Group Policies that prevent local use of the CD-rom (D:) drive, but which the MS Office installations look to as the source drive whenever we update or reinstall. I also thought Office might have been trying to install some function from the CD but that possibility has been eliminated.

Now I am focused strictly on the Explorer functions as they relate to the drop-down box. Anyone seen this sort of thing before?
 
While I can't see any solutions provided by these, they might suggest a couple of things to look at.

File Name, Permissions Lost During Save As on Net Drive

OFF2000: Screen Response Is Slow When You Type Network Drive Letters and File Names in Save As Dialog Box in Word

 
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