Geany does not work with network drives or a network drive mapped to a local folder. I have my codes on a network drive. The drive is mounted in Windows10 as Z:... When I try to run/build, I am getting the error "Failed to change the working directory to "Z:...." I tried to create a symbolic link in Windows, mapping the drive to c:\folder with the command mklink /d c:\folder \networkhost\sharename After that I am getting a popup window saying "Runtime error !..." (screen clipping attached). 
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Which Geany version are you using? This kinda looks like 1.24, and 1.25 has major improvements regarding running commands under Windows, so it might fix that too.
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I had seen some similar issues with Windows 7 and smb-Folders complete unrelated to Geany. For some reason -- i didn't investigate more at this time and don't have access to this setup anymore -- I wasn't able to run some installer or general executables from mounted device. My idea was it might be related to some issue with antivirus. To solve it I needed to copy file to local file system. Maybe worth double checking before deep digging into Geany.
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Is it because of that silly Windows bug where you can't `cd` into a folder on another drive, but first have to put the drive letter by itself to switch to that drive and then `cd` into the folder?
Like: ``` C:\Whatever> cd Z:\foo <doesn't work> C:\Whatever> Z: Z:> cd foo <works> ```
IIRC there was some code added for Windows to override the normal/shortcut-chosen working directory, maybe it needs to do something fancier?
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It seems that after the update to 1.25 i can use as the working directory the mapped network drive.
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Closed #689.
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