Mapped drives not appearing when browsing for a file or folder
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Overview
Mapped drivers are not appearing when browsing for a file or folder is typically caused by ODBClink or Excel running with elevated privileges (e.g. Run As Administrator) while the mapped drive is created without elevated privileges.
To get mapped drives to appear, you can either:
- not run ODBClink' and Excel with elevated privileges or;
- configure the EnableLinkedConnections registry entry to allow mapped drives to appear.
How to configure the EnableLinkedConnections registry entry
The EnableLinkedConnections registry value allows mapped drive to be shared across all applications, regardless if they run with elevated privileges or not.
To configure the EnableLinkedConnections registry value manually, follow these steps. Alternatively, download and run the prepared registry file located here.
- From windows, click Start;
- Type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER to start the Registry Editor;
- Navigate to the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and select it;
- From the Edit menu, select New then DWORD 32-bit Value;
- Enter EnableLinkedConnections as the name of the registry value;
- Double click on the registry value and enter 1 as the value and click OK;
- Close the Registry Editor and restart your machine.