Problem reading external USB drive

[KenS]

I have an external USB drive attached, as drive M:, and am trying to use XY to clean it up, delete old dirs etc.. When I go to that drive, XY becomes unresponsive, and says "getting folder size for M:\Mirror Folder (ESC to stop)". Pushing escape does not seem to have any immediate effect. Eventually XY comes back, with "folder sizes done in 1m 50s".

Is this normal?

PS DOpus opens the drive in a second or two.

Ken

[KenS]

And every time I delete a folder, it rescans ...

[highend]

Use a tweak to disable showing folder sizes for removable drives via a tweak:

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ShowFolderSizeInListOnRemovables=0

https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=tweak

[KenS]

Not in my INI

[KenS]

Also searched for "removable", "ShowFolder", etc in case it got changed recently.

Running XY 24.20.0500

Ken

[KenS]

Tools
Configuration
Tree and List
Cache folder sizes
Show cached folder sizes only

[KenS]

Grrr ... last time I used textpad I must have used casefolding ... and it remembers it, turned that off and can find it now.

[KenS]

Ok, changed the ini file as the instructions. When it opened in textpad, there was a warning about chars not in code page 1242. If I proceed, make no changes at all and just save, XY fails to load correctly, just one line at top left of window. Char by char comparison of before and after ini files shows two lines, one was monitor=0/1 and another, something about ASCII char. Never had a problem with textpad before...

Ken

[highend]

That file is UTF-16 LE with BOM, so if textpad doesn't save it with that encoding...