pywintypes.error: (50, 'GetFileSecurity', 'The request is not supported.') while using Jupyter Notebook on network drive

Question

I am currently trying to use a combination of miniconda + jupyter (installed with pip) on a network drive and I get the following error:

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Answer 1

For anybody having this issue, it seems to be due to updating jupyter notebook, or any other package that can update it.

The steps to fix the issue are the following,

pip install jupyter pip install jupyter-client==5.3.1 python -m ipykernel install --user