I have a home wireless network. I use Directory Opus to access 2 computers and transfer files. So in the top window I have the local files and in the bottom window, I open up the files on the other computer. That's all fine until I turn the other computer off before logging off the network on the lower window. If DOpus can't access the network drive, it ceases to function and has to be shut down.
If you have are reading a CD in DOpus window and take the CD out, the window reverts to Computer. I would like to see this happen when you turn the other computer off. Instead, what it does is go into a Not Responding state. That is because it doesn't know what to do because it can't access the other computer. Could the programmer please program it to revert to Computer when the other computer is no longer detected?
This would be an improvement which could be included in an update.
The problem is how long the network timeouts in Windows are by default. Opus asks Windows for the network drive information and Windows then does not reply until the timeout. Before that tineout the drive still exists as far as Windows (and thus Opus) is concerned.
There are some improvements planned to allow Opus to carry on in more situations without having to wait for Windows to reply to the request with success or failure, but it's hard to say for sure if they'll cover your exact situation.
Note also that having unreachable network drives can cause long delays in other areas, some of them without any obvious connection to the drive (e.g. I've seen it delay opening the start menu even though it doesn't link to any network items, presumably because some shared resource was locked by something else which was waiting for the network timeout).
The problem doesn't happen with Windows Explorer as if you have 2 windows open, to look like DOpus, which is what I might do at work where I don't have it, if you turn off the other computer first, then what you have is 2 windows rather than one, as with DOpus. The affected one in Windows can be closed and the other one can be used. With DOpus, both panes of the one window fail to work and then you have to shut down probably all open windows of DOpus, sometimes using the Windows Task Manager. I can't test it now as my wife is using the other computer.
Thanks.
See if things have improved when the next major update comes out (as that should contain the improvements I mentioned); if not, send a support request to GPSoftware: gpsoft.com.au/Support.html
Well that would be good. I know I should shut things down in the right order, but one of the principles of computer programming (having done 6 months of a computing science degree way back in 1989) was that you had to allow for the user to do the wrong thing. Cheers.