I have a toolbar between my two panes in dual-pane view. When I drag a file from the left pane to the right pane it passes over the toolbar and its buttons. Unless I move the mouse really quickly, the mouse stops as it passes over a toolbar button, presumably prepping itself in case I want to drop the item there.
I understand why it happens, I just think its a little too quick in its response on this event.
Which commands do the buttons on that toolbar run?
Does this only happen when dragging a huge number of files and/or dragging from a slow device (e.g. network share), or all the time?
Happens dragging any file or files from any location.
The buttons on the toolbar in the middle (which I drag over) are simply shortcuts to folders, but the folders may be local or a networked drive. Only exception is a shortcut for Recycle Bin.
On reflection it is probably the Recycle Bin mostly the culprit as its right in the middle so probably the one I drag across most.
I did some testing and found that two shortcuts would cause a 3 second pause. Recycle Bin plus one to a networked PC which has a mapped drive. The PC was available during the testing, the shortcut worked fine. Still it caused the delay when dragging across it.
I noticed that once I had had the delay on Recycle Bin, I could then drag over it repeatedly with no problem. If I waited say a minute though, the problem reoccurred. Same for the other shortcut.
Curiously, there are in fact two shortcuts to thesame networked PC. One exibits the problem, the other doesn't. They appear to be both standard folder shortcuts. These are the two locations:
O:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\OsaSync_Data\PCX
O:\Documents and Settings\Fred\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxhhevih.default
Try editing those buttons and adding a do-nothing command as their first line, so that the tooltip no longer happens. (The tooltip is based on the first command in a multi-line button.)
e.g. If the button was:
GO \\Computer\ShareTry changing it to:
Set FOCUS=Source
GO \\Computer\Share
I'm not certain it will help, as I can't repro the delay here, but I suspect it will.
I don't think I can edit it in that way. The toolbar has just one entry, Favorites *GlenPri4 NOOPENINTABS/S.
Its some of those favorites that exhibit the problem. I guess I could replace all the favorites with equivalent buttons but that would be a lot of phaffing around.
True, you'd have to make individual buttons for each folder instead of using the Favorites command to generate them.
Best thing to do, in the long term, is write to GPSoftware to ask about adding a delay before the tooltip is shown.
BTW, the NOOPENINTABS/S should be NOOPENINTABS without the /S
Ok, thx