{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9091","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9091/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9091/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9091/events","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9091","id":49667543,"number":9091,"title":"homedir() is pointing to a mapped network drive on windows 7","user":{"login":"sivapvarma","id":1314675,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1314675?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma","html_url":"https://github.com/sivapvarma","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sivapvarma/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2014-11-21T07:38:20Z","updated_at":"2015-05-12T20:57:15Z","closed_at":"2014-11-21T08:42:26Z","body":"I have my home folder on a linux box mounted in Windows 7 as a Network drive. Username on both machines is the same. Whenever I start julia with that drive mounted, julia is assuming my homefolder is `\"U:\\\\\"` where my home folder is `\"C:\\\\Users\\\\spv\"`. \r\n\r\n```julia\r\njulia> versioninfo()\r\nJulia Version 0.3.2+2\r\nCommit 6babc84* (2014-10-22 01:21 UTC)\r\nPlatform Info:\r\n  System: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)\r\n  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4300U CPU @ 1.90GHz\r\n  WORD_SIZE: 64\r\n  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)\r\n  LAPACK: libopenblas\r\n  LIBM: libopenlibm\r\n  LLVM: libLLVM-3.3\r\n```"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/comments/101417342","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9091#issuecomment-101417342","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9091","id":101417342,"user":{"login":"tkelman","id":5934628,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5934628?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman","html_url":"https://github.com/tkelman","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tkelman/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-12T20:57:15Z","updated_at":"2015-05-12T20:57:15Z","body":"This does still cause problems with home folders being on network drives on corporate setups. Start menu shortcuts or links don't seem like a great solution here either. I think we just need some better detection for configurations that are likely to cause problems, and put in suggested workarounds either as fallbacks or detailed error messages."}}