Am 11.06.2017 um 23:49 schrieb dick balaska:
> Am 2017-06-11 16:44, also sprach clipka:
> 
>> BTW, "//dir1/dir2/file.png" is _not_ converted to "\dir1/dir2/file.png"
>> on windows. It's the backward slashes that are converted (two backward
>> slashes, i.e. "\\", being interpreted as a literal single backward
>> slash, i.e. "\"), so "\\dir1/dir2/file.png" _would_ be converted to
>> "\dir1/dir2/file.png"
> 
> It is timing out trying to find dir2/file.png on machine dir1.
> //dir1 is a machine name (UNC path?)

Sounds plausible.

File names `//Foo/Bar` or `\\Foo/Bar` (string literal "\\\\Foo/Bar")
would indeed be interpreted as "Bar" on machine "Foo".

And I wouldn't be surprised if the operating system gave you quite a
long timeout when attempting to access a file over the network, possibly
even longer than the default 10s POV-Ray is willing to wait.

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