There is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein:
“THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND GETTING THE SAME RESULT, BUT EXPECTING A DIFFERENT ONE.
The reality of whether he said same or not has been challenged. That doesn’t however change the applicability of the sentiment.
I have two commands that run at startup, mapping “P” to my personal OneDrive, and “O” to my Microsoft Office OneDrive.
The commands are (two single line commands)
net use p: https://d.docs.live.net/0D0CE3E008CF73CA /user:username@emailaddress[.]com xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (x’s are password)
net use o: https://5dsenpcokh88zk1wddbbimdubwm-my.sharepoint.com/personal/username_emailaddress_com/Documents
I have tried it with
net use /PERSISTENT:Yes
And without it. Doesn’t seem to (consistently) alter the problem.
Now, since I am issuing the same command every time on startup, why is it that it would work sometimes, but not always?
Are my commands insane? Repeated execution getting different results, but never in a time or way that is predictable or repairable.
The mapping of “P” works — most times. The mapping of “O”, as often as not, gives me the error “225”. But then not always. Sometimes it works just fine.
Is there some “portion” of memory that retains commands so that conflicts like this can arise? If so, is there any way to totally clear memory at startup?
It’s a bother having to spend a fair amount of time fixing this issue at inopportune times, and for no traceable reason or cause.
EDITED – please don’t post personal information (sure we’ve done this before, for you, too)
Chuck Billow
