Cannot open folder from subst drive

[Mitherr]

Type: Bug

When a longer path (e.g. C:/Users/MyProjects/ProjectA) is mapped to the drive "D" using "subst" (as a developers shortcut) and this drive is then opened like a workspace (project) the File Explorer is empty. In Debug Output for VSCode there's the following error:

[error] [Window] [File Watcher (node.js)] Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir 'd:\'

This worked with previous versions but with the latest one it does not work anymore (in file explorer in vscode there's just D: empty "tree")

VS Code version: Code 1.101.0 (dfaf441, 2025-06-11T15:00:50.123Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10610U CPU @ 1.80GHz (8 x 2304)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	31.61GB (17.18GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 8050d0bc-2283-4d36-9e67-5e2efbcee99d
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

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