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Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 05:48
by 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
Re: Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 06:24
by KenS
And every time I delete a folder, it rescans ...
Re: Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 06:55
by highend
Use a tweak to disable showing folder sizes for removable drives via a tweak:
Code: Select all
ShowFolderSizeInListOnRemovables=0
https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=tweak
Re: Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 08:05
by KenS
Not in my INI
Re: Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 08:22
by KenS
Also searched for "removable", "ShowFolder", etc in case it got changed recently.
Running XY 24.20.0500
Ken
Re: Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 08:28
by KenS
Tools
Configuration
Tree and List
Cache folder sizes
Show cached folder sizes only
Re: Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 08:38
by KenS
Grrr ... last time I used textpad I must have used casefolding ... and it remembers it, turned that off and can find it now.
Re: Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 11:03
by 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
Re: Problem reading external USB drive
Posted: 24 Apr 2023 11:29
by highend
That file is UTF-16 LE with BOM, so if textpad doesn't save it with that encoding...