Slow File/Open on 9.4.1

[westdale]

Apologies if this is a repeat - I cannot see the same issue and searching on 'open file' is rejected as too common a search.

I find that there is an approx 20 second delay on Open/File before the select dialogue opens.
My instinct says that it is related to the use of OneDrive where my main Documents/Pythonscripts folder is situated to be able to access it from (at least) two computers - I'm guessing that this version of TextPad is wandering around the cloud assembling information before displaying the dialogue.

Does anyone have a workaround for this - I may have to revert to one of my old versions of textpad.

[AmigoJack]

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Core quotes of potential fixes:

Try avoiding the themed dialog, because 9.x doesn't use Windows' native GUI anymore and as a result the 3rd party GUI provider hasn't fully imitated every aspect.

Toggling the 'Workspace follows active file' OFF and ON again seems to have "fixed" the issue.

Does it make any difference if you disable .editorconfig file processing on Configure/Preferences/Editor?

[bbadmin]

As Amigo Jack points out, if you are using the themed file open dialog box, this could be the issue, as it can be slow to open because it doesn't share the cache used by the system file open dialog. You can revert to using that with Configure » Preferences » File » Use the standard file open dialog box.

I hope this helps.

[westdale]

Many thanks!
I used whatever is default
As it happens, after a couple of days, it calmed dow and started responding quickly - I guess that is cache related!