Tino Langer wrote:
Hello,
I have some problems with my fresh installed lyx 1.5 beta 3. When I open
a dialog (open file, save file, insert image, ...) which uses
informations from filesystem (i.e. directory listing), die dialog hangs
for a while. It seems there is an timeout.
Is it possible, that the dialog is waitung to connect to network drives
(shared folders), which are currently not available? How to prevent this
behavior?
Many thanks for helpfull hints - Tino
Is this on Windows? Windows is not the brightest of operating systems
when it comes to networked drives. (Actually, I could have stopped that
sentence after 'systems'.) I'm pretty sure the file dialogs use the OS
API to do file system operations, so it's nothing LyX (nor Qt) can
control. I've had Windows do some significant navel gazing at
inconvenient times, which I've attributed to a surfeit of patience
waiting for off-line drives to answer. There *might* be a way to set
this in the registry, but I'm not at all sure. I think the default
might be 10 seconds, and if it waits serially (rather than in parallel)
for a bunch of disconnected drives, that could add up.
The one sure solution is to disconnect/un-map unavailable drives.
/Paul
