PM freezing

[ManniZ]

hello
I'm working with PM favoritly on a fast network drive.
But when PM is still open but not the activated window. Maybe because I'm working in CS-Photoshop.
When I then go back to the PM window it freezes for 5 to 30 seconds and I cannot click anything within the PM window.

Any idea why... or what can help out to avoid this.

Preferences: 512 RAM cache; 1000MB Disk cache
Windows 7 64-bit; 24GB RAM
8GB RAM-Disk
PM and the disk cache is running on the RAMdisk

Thanks for help
Manfred

[Kirk Baker]

Manfred,

I'm working with PM favoritly on a fast network drive.
But when PM is still open but not the activated window. Maybe because I'm working in CS-Photoshop.
When I then go back to the PM window it freezes for 5 to 30 seconds and I cannot click anything within the PM window.

Any idea why... or what can help out to avoid this.

Preferences: 512 RAM cache; 1000MB Disk cache
Windows 7 64-bit; 24GB RAM
8GB RAM-Disk
PM and the disk cache is running on the RAMdisk

When you resume PM it scans all contact sheets for new/changed/deleted files.  If you have a lot of files across the set of open contact sheets this can take some time, especially on a network drive which are (in general) optimized for large data transfers, not small ones like file information queries.

Does this slowdown occur on contact sheets opened on a local hard drive?

-Kirk

[ManniZ]

Its just a little bit better on local drives

Is it possible to limit the amount of open contactsheets ??

sometimes when I try to click on another folder it refuses an jumps back to the already selected one ??
only soloution then is to close PM and restart

[Kirk Baker]

Its just a little bit better on local drives

Is it possible to limit the amount of open contactsheets ??

sometimes when I try to click on another folder it refuses an jumps back to the already selected one ??
only soloution then is to close PM and restart

You can close any unneeded contact sheets by clicking on the 'X' in the far right edge of the toolbar.

-Kirk