Scanning for phantom removable drive at startup

[JLoftus]

I've searched the forum and crawled settings, but I can't seem to find what's causing XY to scan for my "H:" drive on startup.

I do have "Auto-Refresh->Include removable drives" ticked, but I want do want XY to refresh WHEN a thumb drive is plugged in. I have not had one plugged in for days, and have rebooted multiple times, yet XY keeps showing "Add drive H:\" in the splash screen, and because there is no H: drive, startup hangs for a while. How did I get this behavior, and more importantly, how do I stop it?

Thanks

[admin]

Yeah, I get that here too. I can't explain it. Windows insists on reporting that these drives exist, even though it's a lie.

But you can tweak it away:

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HideDrivesByLetter=H

It may also be enough to uncheck Hidden Drives in Configuration | General | Tree and List | Items in Tree and List | Select Items...

[JLoftus]

Unchecking Hidden Drives seems to work, thanks!

I thought I was going crazier than I am, but glad to read that you're occasionally seeing this too. Seems it's a relatively new thing, but I don't have time at the moment to try to go back version by version to try to pin down when it may have changed.

Thanks again

[admin]

No, it's very old. Don't bother.