Bug: TextPad 9 Not Responding

[asterger]

TextPad 9, long hourglass then Not Responding attempting to open a file on an SMB share since upgrading to any 9.x.x release. If left alone, TextPad File Open will eventually succeed, but it takes too long (minutes).

Is there a way to speed this up?

-- Alan Sterger

[bbadmin]

Are your files in a deeply nested directory structure? If so, try disabling .editorconfig files on Configure/Preferences/Editor. If that helps, create a .editorconfig file containing the following line:

root = true

Save it in a parent directory in the tree, above which .editorconfig overrides are no longer appropriate. The closer to the directory containing the files the better. Otherwise, TextPad will recursively try to open a .editorconfig file in every parent directory up to the root of the drive.

[asterger]

Thanks for the reply.

While not deeply nested, share size is 1.8 TB. Disabling .editorconfig in Configure/Preferences/Editor did improve File Open performance.

When you describe creating .editorconfig file in "parent directory in the tree", you are referencing the SMB share and not my local workstation, correct?

Thanks for your help. This was really restricting productivity.

-- Alan Sterger

[bbadmin]

Yes, the .editorconfig file should be on the remote share. Those files override the document class default settings for every file in the directory they are created in, and recursively in every subdirectory. Each one a subdirectory overrides any in higher directories, but the specification requires that TextPad accumulate all the settings in any .editorconfig files it finds recursively in the parent directory of a file, until it encounters one with "root = true". I hope this helps.