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How to deal with computers that are not available on network

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 21:57
by Vocalpoint
Been running into this a lot lately - and I'm sure there's an optimum setting I am missing.

Usually I will use XY to occasionally browse shares on a computer on is up and appears in the Network tree one day...and then the next day - XY is still showing said computer in it's network tree - even tho the machine is not even on. If I mistakenly hit the icon (like I did today)...XY will grind away for minutes before it finally realizes the machine is not really there.

Best practices? Is there a refresh setting that will ensure the Network tree in XY ONLY shows available machines at startup (or when I manually refresh XY?)

Appreciate some insight on this.

Cheers,

VP

Re: How to deal with computers that are not available on net

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 22:13
by serendipity
Vocalpoint wrote:Been running into this a lot lately - and I'm sure there's an optimum setting I am missing.

Usually I will use XY to occasionally browse shares on a computer on is up and appears in the Network tree one day...and then the next day - XY is still showing said computer in it's network tree - even tho the machine is not even on. If I mistakenly hit the icon (like I did today)...XY will grind away for minutes before it finally realizes the machine is not really there.

Best practices? Is there a refresh setting that will ensure the Network tree in XY ONLY shows available machines at startup (or when I manually refresh XY?)

Appreciate some insight on this.

Cheers,

VP
Hi,
I think you have the "Cache network servers" option checked.
Uncheck it from Tools>Config>Startup & exit

Re: How to deal with computers that are not available on net

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 09:03
by admin
Vocalpoint wrote:If I mistakenly hit the icon (like I did today)...XY will grind away for minutes before it finally realizes the machine is not really there.
It's actually Windows that grinds away. XY just sits there and waits for a function to return. The interesting question is: Why does it take so long at your end? When I do this the grinding only takes about 5 seconds. I cannot answer this question.