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#1280 locks up when network drive crashes

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2006-08-10
2006-07-27
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When you bring up the open-dialog it has filled in the
most recent paths. For me, these paths are on network
drives. If everything is working, you bring up WinMerge
and you click the button to open the open-dialog. If
the network drive is not responding, then when you
start WinMerge it shows an outline of the open-dialog
and locks up (ie. stops responding). If there is a
timeout then it is much longer than Windows Explorer's
timeout.

I am using version 2.4.6. I have the option
"Automatically verify paths in open-dialog" selected.

Discussion

  • Kimmo Varis

    Kimmo Varis - 2006-07-27

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    Interesting. Yet another incarnation of this "Windows
    doesn't respond" problem.. It happens with all "slow paths"
    like memory cards too.

    Problem is we aren't doing any own tricks, just trying to
    ask file's info from system (using stat()). So I'm not sure
    what we could do for this problem. Disabling the automatic
    path verify option is there for a reason. :)

     
  • Kimmo Varis

    Kimmo Varis - 2006-08-10

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    I don't know what we really could do here.

    One solution I shortly thought about was to do this validity
    check in own thread and set short timeout for that. If there
    is no response from system in couple of seconds, we can set
    path as invalid, and let user continue with dialog. Thread
    could then be left waiting for system to timeout. However I
    don't know how this would work in practice. Probably poorly.

     
  • Kimmo Varis

    Kimmo Varis - 2006-08-10
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