> I'm sure that I've said this before in the last few weeks, might even have > been to you Javier - but is nice not to be going nuts alone! > > Anybody got an explanation???
At a guess: Explorer uses a Windows API call which notifies it whenever something in the directory it is looking has changed. That is how things will magically appear in the directory that is open when you unzip a file, without your having to use the Refresh option on the menu. So I would guess that Explorer is being overwhelmed by notifications that a file has changed in that directory. Those notifications are expensive to process, since Windows tells you only that a file in the directory has been altered, but not which file, so you (that is, the Explorer program in this case) need to scan the whole directory for each notification. The problem with my theory is that I can't think of any reason just having R:Base open would generate a lot of these notifications UNLESS you are using a older version of R:Base and the directory you are looking at contains the SY5 file (or whatever it is that is used for access control). In that case, it is possible (I don't know this) that that file is constantly being updated with your workstation's ID. There are tools you can download which will spy on all file access and report which files are accessed and how often. If you want to research the problem further, you could get one of these tools and turn it loose and see if there is frequent write access to any file in the directory in question. -- Larry ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
