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Tony Fiorda:
Kirk,

The only times I've seen PM take a excessive time to start is when I've closed it and left the pointer in the Navigator Pane on a drive that is remote from the system I am using.  For instance, on my laptop I have a mapped network drive X: and I've left that drive highlighted AND it is for some reason not available.  PM then (I am assuming) is waiting for the OS SMB timer to time out and then all is normal.  If I have Navigator pointing to a local drive, I have never had a problem.

Tony...

kbell:

--- Quote from: tom on June 01, 2006, 08:21:24 PM ---I am using latest version of PM (4.4.3) on my Win XP home edition equipped desktop with plenty or RAM, etc.  Recently, PM is taking almost 2 minutes to launch and each subsequent operation is taking far too long compared to prior use.  I've uninstalled and re-installed, rebooted soft and full,...nothing seems to help.  I've done full scans for spyware/spybots etc. and nothing is running in the background that I can detect.
Also recently PM has been crashing while I'm operating it along with PhotoShop...message says something like 'sorry, Photo Mechanic has encountered a problem and must close'

Oddly, the same program on my laptop with Win XP Pro, launches quickly, works fast and doesn't crash.


--- End quote ---

Tom,

Navigator saves the state of the tree and tries to restore that state when you start PM.

If you have Navigator displaying folders on a network when you close the program, the next time you start it will go out to the network and enumerate those folders as it's restoring the state of the tree.  This can be a relatively slow process.

I don't know if this is your problem, but if you do have Navigator open to display network drives when you exit PM, I am interested to know if PM will start faster if you collapse the folder tree before you exit PM, then try starting again.

I would also like to know if you are working with local files or network files in Photoshop when you see those crashes.

Thanks,
Kathy

Colin Hackley:
Kathy,

I haven't seen any difference in start up times with the folder tree collapsed prior to shut down.

Kirk: Is there currently a way to tell PM to look for local drives only? I've had this problem for some time and it can be really vexing on deadline, especially when working off network. I think PM takes 30 seconds or so as it searches for each of the drives it last listed in the file tree. If there are several drives on your network you can be in for quite a wait.

It would be great to be able to tell PM to look for all drives on the network or only for A-F for example. Most of the drives on my company's network are at the bottom of the alphabet so being able to eliminate them from the search list would be a big time saver.

Thanks,

Colin

Kirk Baker:
Colin,


--- Quote from: Colin Hackley on June 27, 2006, 07:23:15 AM ---Kirk: Is there currently a way to tell PM to look for local drives only? I've had this problem for some time and it can be really vexing on deadline, especially when working off network. I think PM takes 30 seconds or so as it searches for each of the drives it last listed in the file tree. If there are several drives on your network you can be in for quite a wait.
--- End quote ---

No, there is currently no way to do this.

-Kirk

FairfieldPhoto:
My longest wait was over 3 minutes. 

When I am in a "hurry" now, I use Windows Explorer first to disconnect all network drives that I don't need.  Since a lot of time I am culling/organizing off the network, I don't need ANY mapped network drives.  PM starts right up then and just hums along.

When I am back connected, I make sure the necessary drives are reconnected.

-Mike

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