Reading External HDD's

[barnowl]

Hi
I have 4 external HDD's with many Directories and files.

When I run up and select one of the HDD's, I have to wait while it reads all the Directories and contents and on a 750gb drive it takes some time.

Is there anyway of running the drive but not reading all the files. Just displaying the directory tree.

I would then be able to select the directory I want and then read just the files in that directory.

Can anyone help please.

Thanks

[admin]

I assume you have Show Folder Sizes enabled? Are you aware that you can disable this?

[zer0]

This could also possible due to external HDDs spinning down in periods of inactivity. I know that I encounter similar delays with my external (and even internal) drives. There are proggies out there -- you can even do that with scripting -- that write a little file to a drive every so often, which keeps it spinning...and reduces its lifetime, unfortunately.

[barnowl]

Hi Admin

No I don't have Show Folder Sizes enabled.

Hi Zero

No, it is not the external hdd spinning down in periods of inactivity.

HDD is off and disconnected until I need to access one of the directories.

It's the time taken to run up and go through reading all the directories/folders etc.

What I want, is HDD to run up and show the directory tree, then I can select which directory to open
At the moment, I'm waiting for all of the 750gb of info to be read, before I can select just one file.

[admin]

Hi Admin

No I don't have Show Folder Sizes enabled.

Hi Zero

No, it is not the external hdd spinning down in periods of inactivity.

HDD is off and disconnected until I need to access one of the directories.

It's the time taken to run up and go through reading all the directories/folders etc.

What I want, is HDD to run up and show the directory tree, then I can select which directory to open
At the moment, I'm waiting for all of the 750gb of info to be read, before I can select just one file.

Can't you just click the plus-symbol in the tree to expand the drive node and then click the folder you want to browse?