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  • October 28, 2013 at 11:04 am

    #285254

    Steve,

    Came across this in a topic involving Gail and a person trying to run a backup and failing.

    What this person has run into is, if they key in "\ \ networkdrive" (remove the spaces) the forum chops it off to \etworkdrive

    I even tried wrapping it in a (I dropped the " to avoid a code block) and it does the same thing. If you preview post, it shows chopped off AND the text editor shows it chopped off.

    Good luck...

    Jason

  • October 28, 2013 at 11:14 am

    #1662121

    \n = either CR or LF, the new line character on unix. Anything other than n after the slash works fine. Took me a while to realise he meant a \n was vanishing, not that \\ was getting converted to \

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

  • October 29, 2013 at 5:12 am

    #1662283

    \\network

    The SQL Guy @ blogspot[/url]

    @SeanPearceSQL

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  • October 29, 2013 at 5:33 am

    #1662293

    ""

    Ok, what browsers is everyone useing

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

  • October 29, 2013 at 5:41 am

    #1662297

    \etwork

    I'm using Chrome.

    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

    How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

  • October 29, 2013 at 6:02 am

    #1662305

    :Whistling:

    The SQL Guy @ blogspot[/url]

    @SeanPearceSQL

    About Me[/url]

  • October 30, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    #1662892

    You need to escape things. I suspect this is an interpretation of the two slashes and the "n"

  • October 31, 2013 at 1:31 am

    #1662932

    Just 1 \ and an n will do it. How do you escape things? I tried a few random things and didn't work. Can't the software do that?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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