SpencerBowles

Ok awesome! I will send you the files. What do you mean by a square image?

> I believe we've been able to use docker from different drives, but it's been a while since we've tried. One easy question to start with... what is the exact...

> I have the feeling that we handle this but I do not remember. Is your case : the input (raw recordin) is on a different drive than the output...

> One other question that's Windows specific. Do you have long paths enabled on your computer. Windows does this think where they limit how nested files can be. So if...

If you want to test this I wrote a script that just runs this function, and then prints the path in the recording object. If you save this code as...

When I try this I get a result like this: ``` (si_env_rolling) C:\Users\mathi\github\auxPipelines-DataJoint_Mathis\neuropixels\neuropixels_schemas>python test_si_paths.py "D:\NP_sorted_backup\2024-08-13_13-44-43_Flea_adaptation_implicit\Record Node 101\experiment1\recording1\continuous\Neuropix-PXI-100.ProbeA\cleaning" ➤ BEFORE CONVERSION: kwargs.folder_path: D:\NP_sorted_backup\2024-08-13_13-44-43_Flea_adaptation_implicit\Record Node 101\experiment1\recording1\continuous\Neuropix-PXI-100.ProbeA\cleaning relative_paths: False ➤ AFTER CONVERSION: kwargs.folder_path:...

Per the issue summary above "This issue does not occur: - When running the same call without Docker (in Conda) - When the recording path is on the OS drive...

It really does seem that this drive deletion is by design though. Its even in the descriptive [comments](https://github.com/SpikeInterface/spikeinterface/blob/096bd2d877374cd982c0969aacedac501aa9e105/src/spikeinterface/sorters/runsorter.py#L401-L405)