Support for UNC-Paths and Folder Redirection on Windows

[Matthias Weiler]

I'm not able to save a new Notebook to a redirected folder (for example "my documents") because the "choose Folder"-dialog does only show the local folders in C:\Users\username, not the ones that are redirected to a Server.

I also tried to copy the notebook to a redirected Path but wasn't able to open it there. I have it in the "open Notebook"-dialog now, but the Path says: \\servername\sharename\folder1\folder2\.. and if I try to open it, I get an ugly:
Could not find Notebook file://////servername/sharename/folder1/folder2/..

The problem seems to be, that Zim doesn't know about UNC-Paths on Windows.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

I don't understand what you mean by "redirect" folders. What kind of
redirect are we talking about here ?

Zim should be able to access UNC paths, tested specifically for links,
maybe there is a bug when resolving a notebook to an UNC path ?

Regards,

Jaap

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Matthias Weiler <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> I'm not able to save a new Notebook to a redirected folder (for example
> "my documents") because the "choose Folder"-dialog does only show the
> local folders in C:\Users\username, not the ones that are redirected to
> a Server.
>
> I also tried to copy the notebook to a redirected Path but wasn't able to
> open it there. I have it in the "open Notebook"-dialog now, but the Path
> says: \\servername\sharename\folder1\folder2\.. and if I try to open it, I
> get an ugly:
> Could not find Notebook file://////servername/sharename/folder1/folder2/..
>
> The problem seems to be, that Zim doesn't know about UNC-Paths on
> Windows.
>
> ** Affects: zim
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: windows
>
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[Matthias Weiler (matthias-weiler)]

I'm refering to Folder Redirection as used by Microsoft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folder_redirection

On my System "My Documents" is not a local folder in my profile but is redirected to an smb-share (UNC-Path). That means that I don't see that Folder when opening C:\Users\unsername\. But when I open my Home-Folder with Windows Explorer, the "My Documents" subfolder is shown.

The open-dialog of Zim does not show "My Documents".

I will do some more tests on Monday to see if UNC-Paths generally work and will give you more information.

[Mike Wang (mcfalski)]

I get this error when I try to create a notebook at a UNC path:

This is zim 0.62
Platform: nt
Locale: en_CA cp1252
FS encoding: mbcs
Python: (2, 7, 8, 'final', 0)
Gtk: (2, 24, 10)
Pygtk: (2, 24, 0)
Zim revision is:
  branch: 062
  revision: 739 <email address hidden>
  date: 2014-10-10 21:28:06 +0200

======= Traceback =======
  File "zim\gui\widgets.pyo", line 3077, in do_response
  File "zim\gui\notebookdialog.pyo", line 350, in do_response_ok
  File "zim\gui\__init__.pyo", line 1206, in open_notebook
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 822, in get_notebook
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 804, in get_proxy
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 769, in call
TypeError: ('__init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)', <class 'zim.fs.FileNotFoundError'>, ())

It created the folder and notebook.zim, but seems to have problems opening it. It opens fine when the path is mapped to a drive letter, but not directly via the UNC path.

[sclebo05 (sclebo05)]

Similar issue, on 0.63 with Roaming Profiles on Windows, I get type error in __init__ not recieving 2 arguments ( see below )

I am also attaching a picture, which shows a notebook in the 'local' directory structure, and one that was 'created' but cannot be opened on the UNC based Roaming Profile.

Error:

This is zim 0.63
Platform: nt
Locale: en_US cp1252
FS encoding: mbcs
Python: (2, 7, 10, 'final', 0)
Gtk: (2, 24, 10)
Pygtk: (2, 24, 0)
Zim revision is:
  branch: trunk
  revision: 766 <email address hidden>
  date: 2015-06-14 11:19:01 +0200

======= Traceback =======
  File "zim\gui\widgets.pyo", line 3087, in do_response
  File "zim\gui\notebookdialog.pyo", line 350, in do_response_ok
  File "zim\gui\__init__.pyo", line 1208, in open_notebook
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 822, in get_notebook
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 804, in get_proxy
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 769, in call
TypeError: ('__init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)', <class 'zim.fs.FileNotFoundError'>, ())