[tex-live] TeXLive vc UNC paths or redirected folders

[Lars Madsen]

I think that is enough, I'm just thinking it should be mentioned in the manual.


Sadly a lot of Windows users does not know the difference, between their (redirected) Desktop and the real location of the Desktop.


/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math<http://au.dk/daleif@imf> / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math<http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf>

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From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
Sent: 21 March 2018 14:44
To: Lars Madsen
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Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeXLive vc UNC paths or redirected folders

Yes, it happens. It should be sufficient to map the folder so that it gets a drive letter but I have not tried for TL. It helps with other installers.

Zdenek Wagner
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2018-03-21 14:34 GMT+01:00 Lars Madsen <daleif at math.au.dk<mailto:daleif at math.au.dk>>:
Just wondering

(assuming Windows)

Have others had any issues with TL installation where the installer was placed in a folder that was access via a UNC path or similar or via redirected folders (same thing)?

I have a user who has a Win10 from our UNI. It uses redirected folders, aka on UNI cabled network his Desktop and Documents folders are mapped onto a file server via UNC paths).

He was complaining that he could not install TL, something about Perl missing or similar. Turned out he has unpacked the ZIP installed on his Desktop. Everything worked fine, when we unpacked and ran it from Downloads

I wonder if it is worth mentioning this in in the TL manual?


/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math



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