flashing Icon when deleting

[Dominik Pluess]

When deleting a file with the backspace key, an small File-Icon is flashing on in the middle of the screen. Bug? Photo Mechanic Version 5.0, build 15800 (e6ecc1c)

[Kirk Baker]

I've never seen that before.  Could you make a movie capture of it in action and make it available for viewing?

-Kirk

[Kirk Baker]

Dominik,

Thank you for the video.  I see what you're talking about.  I'll see what I can do to eliminate it for the next build.

-Kirk

[Dominik Pluess]

thanks

[Dominik Pluess]

any idea about my the long time for starting PM?

[Kirk Baker]

Dominik,

any idea about my the long time for starting PM?

If I had to guess, I expect that one or more of your mounted drives (internal, external, or network) had gone into sleep mode and took time to spin up.  PM queries all attached drives on startup.  Each sleeping drive will take several seconds 5-10 to spin up and return their root folder information.  The drives are accessed serially, so if you have three drives that are asleep then you can expect the delay to be up to 30 seconds long.

But that's a hunch.  I cannot tell for certain in your video what the cause would be.  Another cause would be a very large disk cache that was not emptied on quit (PM has to reconnect with the disk cache on startup.)

-Kirk

[Kirk Baker]

Dominik,

This build should solve the problem of the dialog appearing when deleting single images: http://www.camerabits.com/download/PhotoMechanic5R15840.dmg

Please give it a try and let me know if it solves the problem for you.

Thanks,

-Kirk

Kirk A. Baker
Senior Software Engineer
Camera Bits, Inc.

[Dominik Pluess]

Hi Kirk

Yes, this build solves the problem.

Thank you

Dominik