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Screen doesn't repaint, application freezes for many seconds
Posted: 29 Oct 2007 17:02
by jerobbins
I tried a backup of about 60 GB worth of VMs and ISO files from a local hard drive to an external USB device. While XYplorer was backing up large files, the screen would freeze and the application wouldn't respond. Even when the screen was repainted, the app frequently didn't respond to a keypress or mouse click on a menu.
After the backup was completed XYplorer was functional and responsive.
I'm running Windows XP SP2 64-bit with all security patches. I tested with XRplorer 6.40.0026. I tried the same thing with 6.40.0020 and it eventually hung.
Posted: 29 Oct 2007 17:38
by ugus
I have occasionally experienced the same thing when XYplorer does some really lengthy operations.
Don,
Is it something you can do to make XYplorer more responsive during these operations?
EDIT:
Running Windows XP SP 2 (English version) updated with latest patches
/Ulrik
Re: Screen doesn't repaint, application freezes for many sec
Posted: 29 Oct 2007 18:04
by admin
jerobbins wrote:I tried a backup of about 60 GB worth ...
When you say "backup" do you mean XY's "backup" or a normal "copy"?
Re: Screen doesn't repaint, application freezes for many sec
Posted: 29 Oct 2007 18:26
by jerobbins
admin wrote:jerobbins wrote:I tried a backup of about 60 GB worth ...
When you say "backup" do you mean XY's "backup" or a normal "copy"?
From within XYplorer, I had a folder on the USB drive open in one of the tabs. I copied several different folder trees to a new "Backup" category. While that category was selected, I chose
Backup To and selected the open tab.
Re: Screen doesn't repaint, application freezes for many sec
Posted: 29 Oct 2007 18:34
by admin
jerobbins wrote:admin wrote:jerobbins wrote:I tried a backup of about 60 GB worth ...
When you say "backup" do you mean XY's "backup" or a normal "copy"?
From within XYplorer, I had a folder on the USB drive open in one of the tabs. I copied several different folder trees to a new "Backup" category. While that category was selected, I chose
Backup To and selected the open tab.
Thanks, I'll check that.
General tip: XY is basically
single-thread and
multi-instance, so even if it was responsive you could not do anything until the process is finished. However, you can always open a new instance of XY and go on working with it. Have one XY sweating in the back, and another one for you manual work...