Xplorer2 2.2 fails to detect network drive mappings

scio · Post by **scio** » 2012 Dec 04, 05:39

With Windows 8, I fail to see network drive mappings in both the tree, as well as My Computer. I tried reinstalling 1.8, and I can see all mapped network drives.

The file shares are supplied through my linux server.

Post by **nikos** » 2012 Dec 04, 06:49

are you running xplorer2 as forced administrator? Try running it normally

scio · Post by **scio** » 2012 Dec 04, 07:10

nikos wrote:are you running xplorer2 as forced administrator? Try running it normally

That was exactly what it was, so no possible way to run as admin? Thanks for the quick response!

Post by **nikos** » 2012 Dec 04, 10:40

I don't know what to say, probably if you try to run windows explorer as admin you would have the same problem. See here for UAC survival tips
www.zabkat.com/blog/14Feb10-surviving-UAC.htm

scio · Post by **scio** » 2013 Feb 18, 01:29

I have tried looking at xplorer2 recently and the lag I get in certain folders on Windows 8 with 2.2.0.2. Even running under UAC and not as admin, the first time I open xplorer2, the first time I browse to my desktop, I get a ~45 second freeze in xplorer2 where the entire UI is unresponsive and goes grey. Once the desktop folder is loaded, I can browse to any other location and back and don't have an issue. I get this issue also if I have a network location mapped in "My Computer" which currently isn't accessible.

Windows explorer does not show this issue at all, so typically while I am waiting for xplorer2 to respond, I end up doing the action in explorer. Have I set up something incorrectly?

Post by **nikos** » 2013 Feb 18, 06:23

the newer (beta) v2.3 will be better at that but your comparison to windows explorer is unfair. Explorer is always running as your desktop. If you start xplorer2 and leave it running then you will see this delay only once. So your solution is to keep xplorer2 running all the time

scio · Post by **scio** » 2013 Feb 18, 21:40

I want to apologize for the comparison, obviously I appreciate the benefits of xplorer2 and was just getting frustrated because I know this is not the typical experience of users with xplorer2.

I looked further with my configs and found that the root cause is tied to two color codings that check for directory size (one checks for directories with "contents value from 0 to 0", and the other checks for folders "size value larger than 500mb"). I think the problem is the check for contents, when I disable it, I do not get an issue when swapping directories. Is there a way to get color coding for empty directories without getting this performance hit?

Thanks

Post by **nikos** » 2013 Feb 19, 06:10

the new version 2.3 will help here as it disables getting folder sizes for networks altogether

Thracx · Post by **Thracx** » 2013 Feb 25, 14:55

nikos wrote:the new version 2.3 will help here as it disables getting folder sizes for networks altogether

*praise nikos, praaaaiise *