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Can't change dir to network drive in console

See original GitHub issue

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

ust installed spyder 4.0. this error is coming up when i access a folder or a file.

Traceback

Exception in comms call set_cwd:
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\comms\commbase.py", line 342, in _handle_remote_call
    buffer['call_kwargs'])
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\comms\commbase.py", line 353, in _remote_callback
    *call_args, **call_kwargs)
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\console\kernel.py", line 352, in set_cwd
    os.chdir(dirname)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] The specified path is invalid: '\\\\\\\\fs01\\\\users\\\\ora\\\\Python Scripts\\\\HS_Scanner'
WARNING:spyder.widgets.github.backend:Failed to send bug report on Github. response={'code': 401, 'json': {'message': 'Bad credentials', 'documentation_url': 'https://developer.github.com/v3'}}
WARNING:spyder.widgets.github.backend:Failed to send bug report on Github. response={'code': 401, 'json': {'message': 'Bad credentials', 'documentation_url': 'https://developer.github.com/v3'}}

Versions

Spyder version: 4.0.0rc2
Python version: 3.6.8
Qt version: 5.11.2
PyQt5 version: 5.11.3
Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

cloudpickle >=0.5.0          :  0.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0               :  2.3.1 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.6.0            :  4.6.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0              :  5.4.1 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6               :  1.8.5 (OK)
pylint >=0.25                :  2.3.1 (OK)
psutil >=0.3                 :  5.6.1 (OK)
qtawesome >=0.5.7            :  0.5.7 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                 :  1.7.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4            :  0.7.5 (OK)
zmq >=17                     :  18.0.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0              :  3.0.4 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0             :  0.8.0 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=1.8.0;<2.0.0:  1.8.0 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=2.7             :  2.7 (OK)
atomicwrites >=1.2.0         :  1.3.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111  :  20181111 (OK)
watchdog                     :  None (OK)
keyring                      :  None (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0              :  4.7.0 (OK)
pympler                      :  None (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                :  1.3 (OK)
cython >=0.21                :  0.29.6 (OK)
IPython >=4.0                :  7.4.0 (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0           :  3.0.3 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1              :  0.24.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                  :  1.16.2 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0               :  1.2.1 (OK)
pyls >=0.31.0;<0.32.0        :  0.31.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.8.3                :  0.8.3 (OK)