# Filebeat adds drive letter to path **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [October 27, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-adds-drive-letter-to-path/253470 "2020-10-27T16:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jimmyvalmer19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@jimmyvalmer19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jimmyvalmer19)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-adds-drive-letter-to-path/253470/1 "2020-10-27T16:23:26Z")
Hi, since I always get help here, i try next one. This may be something very obvious, but i spent already few hours on this. It's about filebeat (7.3.0) running on Windows server I'm using shared drive in my Filebeat inputs.yml file: ``` - type: log paths: - \\vsfs10\\ifpcshare\\InformaticaServer\\WorkflowLogs\\**\\*.log ``` And when I start Filebeat it thinks, that the path is > I:\vsfs10\ifpcshare\InformaticaServer\WorkflowLogs\*.log according to logfile. Filebeat is adding "I:" to my path. I start Filebeat from command line just by going to location **I:\Filebeat** and entering **.\filebeat.exe** I already tried to put my path in single quotes like this: > ``` > - '\\vsfs10\\ifpcshare\\InformaticaServer\\WorkflowLogs\\**\\*.log' > > ``` And I tried to escape backslashes like this: > ``` > - \\\\vsfs10\\ifpcshare\\InformaticaServer\\WorkflowLogs\\**\\*.log > > ``` Which didn't help obviously. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-adds-drive-letter-to-path/253470/2 "2020-11-24T18:23:44Z")
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