# Problem

Creating website projects in RStudio always fails with the following error: 

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/46591182/193437035-fc35c6eb-3f65-4c38-9c7e-dace5ad95c73.png)

If I create it locally on the C: drive and then copy it back to the network drive, I get the following error

```
ERROR: NotFound: The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3), stat 'UNC\Thor\users\tgummer\quarto_website'
```

I don't have an in depth knowledge of how UNC paths work but according to my understanding that instead of having the "UNC\" in it, this path should be either `\\Thor\users\tgummer\quarto_website` or `H:\tgummer\quarto_website` (as `\\Thor\users` is mapped to `H:` on my computer).

This indicates to me that quarto is somehow not recognising file paths on the network drives as existing or perhaps certain generated files aren't getting created quickly enough and the process is getting stuck



# System

I used RStudio (but also tired the command line as well with the same result) on windows to render my quarto website/setup the project.

# Caveats

It is only websites that aren't working, Quarto documents are working fine.

Wesbites also render fine on the local C: drive.
2022-10-02T04:03:24Z
t-gummer
closed
Error when rendering quarto websites on mapped/network drives/UNC paths on Windows
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/2711