Custom Query (301 matches)

When the file open dialog is opened in an application, it accesses all drives including the floppy and DVD/CD ones even if the current path is not located there.

It would be great if this could be changed to access the drives only when required because:

• This puts stress on the floppy drive which is usually empty these days and makes the DVD/CD drive spin up unnecessarily if a disc is located in the drive.

• The dialog won't work until the TOC of all media has been read which can take quite some time for floppies and DVDs/CDs.

Not sure if this os OS/2 specific, but I have here a few examples where the file open dialog is not sorting the files as it should. See screenshot...

A user reports that Qt tries to access his drive A: every time he opens a file open dialog. My guess is that it tries to read the root directory which takes too much time and makes too much noise if there is no disk in drive A:. Similar thing should happen to drive B: