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Automatically convert network paths between Windows (UNC) and Mac (SMB) formats. Copy the correct path with a single click. Can't open a \\server\share path on your Mac? Received an smb:// link that Windows won't accept? UNC SMB Path Converter finds Windows (UNC) and Mac (SMB) network paths on any web page and converts them into the format your computer understands — then copies the right path with a single click. In offices where Windows PCs and Macs share the same file server or NAS, file paths are posted every day in chat, email, wikis and ticket systems. But a Windows path such as \\fileserver\projects\2026\proposal.pptx means nothing to Finder, and a Mac link such as smb://fileserver/projects/2026/proposal.pptx won't open in File Explorer. Rewriting backslashes and forward slashes by hand is slow and error-prone: one wrong character and the shared folder can't be found. UNC SMB Path Converter removes that friction. Open the page that contains the path, click the extension icon, and every network path on the page is listed, already converted for your OS. Click once to copy, paste it into Finder or File Explorer, and you're there. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📁 Automatic path detection on any web page Click the icon and the extension scans the text of the current page for Windows UNC paths (\\server\share\...) and Mac SMB links (smb://server/share/...). It works on any web page where a file server path has been pasted, such as email, chat or wiki pages. Duplicates are removed and paths are listed in the order they appear on the page. 🔄 Windows ⇄ Mac conversion in both directions • Windows tab: smb://server/share/folder becomes \\server\share\folder • Mac tab: \\server\share\folder becomes smb://server/share/folder The tab that matches your computer's OS is selected automatically, and your choice is remembered for next time. 📋 One-click copy Click any path (or its copy button) and the converted path is copied to your clipboard, with a "Copied!" confirmation. Paste it into Finder's "Connect to Server" (⌘K) on a Mac, or into the File Explorer address bar or the Run dialog (Win+R) on Windows. 🎯 Hover to locate the path on the page Hover over an entry in the list and the original path is highlighted on the page with a red frame. The page even scrolls to it, including inside scrollable chat threads and side panels, and scrolls back when you move the mouse away. When a page contains many paths, you always know exactly which one you are copying. ✏️ Automatically rewrite paths on the page (optional) Turn on "Automatically rewrite paths on this page in Windows/Mac format" at the bottom of the popup, and every time you click the icon the paths shown on the page are replaced with your OS format, so you can select and copy them straight from the page. Turn the option off and the original text comes back immediately. Only the text displayed in your own tab changes: text boxes and editors you are typing in are never touched, nothing is saved to the website, and reloading the page always shows the original. ⌨️ Convert tab: paste any path manually Got a path from a PDF, a desktop chat app or a colleague's message? Open the Convert tab and paste it. The format (Windows UNC or Mac SMB) is detected automatically and the converted path appears instantly, ready to copy. If the current page contains no paths, the Convert tab opens by itself. 📚 Batch conversion of multiple paths Paste several paths at once, one per line, into the Convert tab. Every line is converted in a single step, even a mixed list of Windows and Mac paths. Blank lines and lines that are not paths are skipped. 🧠 Handles the tricky details • Yen-sign separators used on Japanese systems (¥¥server¥share) are recognized as backslashes. • URL-encoded characters in smb:// links (such as %20 for spaces) are decoded into readable Windows paths. • Unicode normalization is adjusted for each OS (NFC for Windows, NFD for macOS), so accented letters and Japanese, Chinese or Korean folder and file names stay correct. • Server names, IP addresses (\\192.168.1.10\share), FQDNs and NAS host names (smb://nas.local/share) all work, as do folder names that contain spaces. 🌐 Available in more than 50 languages The interface automatically follows the language you use in Chrome. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVACY & SECURITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • All detection and conversion happens locally in your browser. Paths, page content and URLs are never sent to any server. • No tracking, no analytics, no ads and no account required. • Minimal permissions: "activeTab" and "scripting" let it read the current tab only when you click the icon, and "storage" keeps your tab choice and option settings on your device. It does not request access to all websites and never reads your clipboard. • Nothing runs in the background. The extension only works while you have it open. This makes it a good fit for corporate environments with strict security policies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW TO USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Open a page that contains a network path (an email, chat message, wiki page, ticket, etc.). 2. Click the UNC SMB Path Converter icon in the toolbar. Pin it for one-click access. 3. Choose the Windows or Mac tab. Your own OS is selected by default. 4. Click the path you need to copy it, then paste it into Finder (⌘K) or File Explorer. Tip: hover over the list to see where each path sits on the page, or use the Convert tab to paste paths yourself. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 SUPPORTED PATH FORMATS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Windows (UNC): \\server\share\folder\file.xlsx \\192.168.1.10\share\folder ¥¥server¥share¥folder Mac (SMB): smb://server/share/folder/file.xlsx smb://nas.local/share/My%20Folder ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👥 PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Offices and schools where Windows and Mac users share the same file server or NAS • Design, video, photo and other creative teams exchanging asset paths between Mac and Windows • Architecture, engineering and CAD teams working with project folders on network drives • IT administrators and help desk staff who send shared folder locations to users • Developers and project managers posting file server links in tickets and documentation • Anyone tired of changing \ to / (and back again) by hand ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ FAQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q. Can it open the folder in Finder or File Explorer directly? A. For security reasons, browsers cannot open network folders from a web page on their own. The extension copies the correct path so you can open it in seconds: on a Mac, press ⌘K in Finder and paste; on Windows, paste into the File Explorer address bar. Q. Can it convert drive letters or mount points such as Z:\folder or /Volumes/share? A. No. Drive letters and mount points depend on how each computer is set up, so they cannot be converted reliably. The extension handles server-based paths: \\server\share and smb://server/share. Q. The popup shows "Connection error". A. Some pages, such as Chrome's own settings pages (chrome://) and the Chrome Web Store, do not allow extensions to read them. If it happens on a normal page, reload the page. The Convert tab works everywhere. Q. A path picked up extra words after it. A. A path is read up to the end of its line, because folder names can contain spaces. Paths written on their own line give the cleanest results. Q. Does auto-rewrite change the original email or document? A. No. It only changes what is displayed in your browser tab. Turn the option off or reload the page to see the original again. Stop retyping slashes. Install UNC SMB Path Converter and make file sharing between Windows and Mac effortless.