topic Problem reloading files from mapped drives in QlikView

Problem reloading files from mapped drives

galrion82 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

I noticed something strange when i tried to reload a file that loads data from a mapped drive.

If i run the scrip manually, it works just fine. But when i try to create a job in QlikView Server to do the same thing it doesn't work. It acts like the drive isn't mapped.

Is this a bug, or Qvs can't use mapped drives?

I have QlikView Server 9 SR2 64bit on an Windows 2008 SR2 64 bit server.

Problem reloading files from mapped drives

kji — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:17:49 GMT

Drives are usually mapped on a per user level, most likely the account running the task doesent have that mapping.

Problem reloading files from mapped drives

galrion82 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:31:55 GMT

I don't think this is it ; the drive is mapped on all the users on the server with the same letter.

Problem reloading files from mapped drives

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:59:20 GMT

Hi Alecsandru,

I had the same problem before..it does seem that when it is running in the server it cant locate it if you just input the mapped drive..i solved this by just giving the complete path..on my case in the office its something like this:

\\10.248.2.24\folder1\folder2\folder3\filename.filetype

Problem reloading files from mapped drives

mihaiturturica — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:54:12 GMT

Hi Alecs,

I had the same problem too.
I solved in two ways:
1. \\192.168.0.1\D$\Folder\Document.xls
(Attention at the folder security.) I used this in script.
2. \\192.168.0.1\Folder\Document.xls
(Attention at the folder security.
Attention at map networking drive.) I used this in vbs macro.

Best regards,
Mihai Turturica

Problem reloading files from mapped drives

galrion82 — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:54:42 GMT

Hi Mihai

Your solution worked. The files have reloaded without problems last night.

10x a lot