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torvista
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Long response time/hangs when navigating

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Hi,
When displaying the contents of a (networked) drive in the left window, as it displays each folder name unfolding downwards, it always stops/hangs on the same one (which contains 9,500 files and 2,500 folders).
Vista classes it as not responding, although it eventually starts working again some time later (maybe 15 mins later).
Obviously it is doing something when it is displaying the folder list the first time and is choking on the contents.
Is there any option I can change to stop it doing whatever it is doing to stop the choking?
thanks
Steve
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perhaps you are calculating subfolder sizes? Is this a root network folder or some subfolder?
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Post by torvista »

Hi,
there is no display of the folder size in the bottom status bar. I thought this sort of calculation was a pro version feature.

The networked drive is labelled as drive "B:" which is mapped to a directory inside My Documents on a networked Windows XP pc.
The pc having the problem uses Vista.
I have another Windows XP machine that has a similar mapping to the same directory on the remote pc and this one has no problems nor delay showing this problem folder.
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Steve
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is the delay caused by the tree? Try hiding the tree and see what happens
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Post by torvista »

Hi,
if I hide the tree pane (leaving the left and right dual panes open) and navigate through the left pane, there is no no delay and I can tunnel into the directory fine.
If I enable the tree and open the B: drive, it hangs upon reaching the problem directory same as before.
So, what is the tree doing that the normal folder view isn't?

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Steve
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i think the delay is down to the icon of the unavailable network drive. See the new GAOPT_ECONOMYNETWD registry tweak available through the gui registry settings editor
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Post by torvista »

Hi,
problem solved.

To summarise the scenario.
1) the extreme left folder tree was expanding/listing the folders in a subdirectory of B: but it always stopped short (stopped responding) of listing all these folders when it reached the same folder in the list, so I assumed this folder was causing the problem.
3) at the same time the left folder pane was showing these same folders but there was also a 50mb/4600 file .zip file in this folder view. I noticed the icon for this .zip was not a zip but a folder icon. I moved the file elsewhere and all is working fine.

thanks for the help.
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Steve