'Ghost' drives: drive letter for some remote storage (NAS, other type of network storage) is present, but the media is offline (NAS turned off, remote storage disconnected)
Broken removable media or removable media reader (DVD drive, card reader, etc).
FastRawViewer inspects all connected media on start, if media is not connected or broken: this takes time.
To detect the 1st problem: Start FastRawViewer 'As Administrator' (right click on application icon, select Run as Administrator). In this mode all network storage is disconnected (not available/not visible for the application that started 'As admin')
To detect the 2nd one: disconnect all removable storage from your computer.
To fix the problem:
Disconnect/unmount ghost/broken media
or use FastRawViewer Preferences - Other - Use reduced folders panel functions
If the 2nd option is used: some functions in the Folders panel will be not available; Also all media-type related settings (Preferences - Performance - Slow media) will not be used, all media will be considered local. So the 1st option is better.
Dear Alain:
Dear Alain:
Such problems are usually related to
FastRawViewer inspects all connected media on start, if media is not connected or broken: this takes time.
To detect the 1st problem: Start FastRawViewer 'As Administrator' (right click on application icon, select Run as Administrator). In this mode all network storage is disconnected (not available/not visible for the application that started 'As admin')
To detect the 2nd one: disconnect all removable storage from your computer.
To fix the problem:
If the 2nd option is used: some functions in the Folders panel will be not available; Also all media-type related settings (Preferences - Performance - Slow media) will not be used, all media will be considered local. So the 1st option is better.
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Alex Tutubalin/FastRawViewer team