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Eaopwer
Apr 15, 2025Bronze Contributor
Explorer and Network drives, path auto-collapses
Has anyone noticed that if you have an Explorer window open and you've navigated to a folder a few levels down and on the left, the path hierarchy is displayed in the normal way, but if you switch to...
KairosFrost
Apr 17, 2025Iron Contributor
Yeah, this is a known quirk in Explorer, especially with network drives. Windows sometimes auto-collapses the navigation pane after periods of inactivity or disconnects. Your workaround using the UP then BACK button is a solid quick fix—unfortunately, there's no official setting to stop it.