Trying to watch on a folder on an network drive

I store all of my photos on a netwrok drive so that everybody can acccess them. Genrally the photos are imported and put up there by my wife using picassa on her laptop. I am trying to watch this folder and find that PSE 10 organiser will not retain the watched folder.
I have the folder on the network drive mapped to S: on my computer when I try and watch this folder it seems to add it then tells me the path cannot be found. So I use the nework location to put the watch folder in and it happily accepts it then when I close down organiser and repopen it the watch folder has dissappeared.
Any ideas?

Thanks looks like it may have worked.
I forgot to mention before that I lost the watched folder when I put the laptop in standby or rebooted. Tried it after standby and the watched folder was there although unusally it took three or four attempts to open organiser! The selection screen came up selected organiser and rather than the bar changing and then opening the selection screen just disappeared and had to reopen it
Will keep an eye on it and let you know
Thanks

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