Thanks for your help. It is related to my previous question Splitpath on UNC shares where joinpath(splitdrive)
also fails:
julia> splitdrive("\\\\svfae01-solid01\\SED\\SE")
("\\\\svfae01-solid01\\SED", "\\SE")
julia> joinpath(splitdrive("\\\\svfae01-solid01\\SED\\SE"))
"\\SE"