Photoshop freezes when Filebrowser scanning drives

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nils
Oct 1, 2003
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As Adobe is not supporting anything related to networks, I hope one of you people can help me.

I am using Photoshop 7.01 and when I open te Filebrowser (in docked or window mode) it shows intially +Desktop. Then it starts to scan all my drives including the network drives. Apperantly this is a bit to much of a headache for good ol’ Photoshop because Photoshop freezes completely for a couple of minutes (Not Responding) and comes back te live again.

If I disable my network connection, the system works fine (but that’s not a useable solution, thanks Adobe!). However any other application with a filebrowser (e.g. Nikon View, ACDC, Explorer) are working fine over the network.

A workaround could be to force Photoshop to look into a default directory on my local harddrive only, but according to Adobe there is no setting for this??!!

Nils

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Rob_Keijzer
Oct 1, 2003
Hoi!

I had this not with a network drive, but with some (local) directories that were quite huge, and containing image files.

I found out it was time consuming because PS had to regenerate all the image thumbnails again.

You can put these in a file stored in the same dir. Go to the options of the browser and select "export cache".

PS reads this file in stead of ALL the files when navigating to this dir.

It is also used just before burning a cd.

Don’t forget to updat this cache regularly.

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Rob

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