Error: specified data directory "\\IP.Ad.re.ss\release\Folder"does not exist

[card0384]

I have the entire Bitcoin installation on a storage share. From \IP.Ad.re.ss\release\Folder\bitcoin-qt.exe i have a shortcut on my Desktop to start it and in registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bitcoin\Bitcoin-Qt\strDataDir is \IP.Ad.re.ss\release\Folder. This has worked well for several years. The last working version for me was bitcoin-0.21.1-win64. I have now updated to version bitcoin-23.0-win64.
At startup, the error comes from the title. After copying back version bitcoin-0.21.1-win64 it works again immediately.
I use Windows 11 22H2 - including all updates with Core I3 8100T and 10GB RAM.

the release is on a QNAP. The release itself works because the bitcoin-qt.exe is also started by the same.
I am using bitcoin-core from bitcoin-23.0-win64.zip website

debug.log writes nothing to its error - only the dialog box on start bitcoin-qt in version 23.0 win64

Many Thanks for fixing it.
card0384

[fanquake]

@sipsorcery any thoughts here?

[hebasto]

Looks like the issue is related to Windows native format implementation of QSettings...

[card0384]

Unfortunately I can't do anything with it - I use the ready-made bitcoin-qt.exe and it always ran without problems.

[sipsorcery]

@card0384 maybe it'd be worth mapping a network drive to your Qnap and using that instead of the UNC path? That might make Qt happier.

[card0384]

Thank you very much for the tip, could you please restore the functionality in the next releases so that bitcoin.exe can be started directly from the network drive again? Many Thanks

[pinheadmz]

I wonder if this is related to #27246 and fixed by #27273 ?

[willcl-ark]

@ryanofsky are you working on this?