# NOT so happy with dopus anymore (stability, foldersize calc)

**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/not-so-happy-with-dopus-anymore-stability-foldersize-calc/7136
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [December 10, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/not-so-happy-with-dopus-anymore-stability-foldersize-calc/7136 "2008-12-10T10:37:27Z")
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### Author: ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/not-so-happy-with-dopus-anymore-stability-foldersize-calc/7136/2 "2008-12-10T10:46:21Z")

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[quote="DavidP"]Unfortunately I have to say that there is only one of the about 250 applications that I use which actually crashes more often than Dopus (that app being Dragon NaturallySpeaking).

For example, Dopus very often completely locks when a html file or mht file is pre-viewed in the preview pane.[/quote]  
Didn't you trace the stability problems in Opus, at least when viewing HTML files, as coming from Dragon NaturallySpeaking (which loads itself into other processes)?

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> The other continued, major annoyance for me is that Dopus literally brings my computer to a standstill for like two minutes every time it is started, just because it thinks it must calculate every single of my 100,000 folders' size anew every time (or at least the size of the 500-something folders that are shown in my Dopus Startup Tab Group).

If it's causing problems why not [turn off automatic size calculation](https://resource.dopus.com/t/calculate-folder-sizes-automatically/2064/1)?

I agree that having automatic calculation turned on can be annoying due to all the disk access generating information that you may not actually need at the time. I need the folder-size info rarely enough that I am happy triggering the calculation via a toolbar button. (Probably why it's off by default, though I can see it being useful to turn it on within certain directories that you know don't take long to calculate and often need the info for. You can turn it on, restricted to certain folders only, using folder formats.)

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> PLEASE GPSOFT, MAKE DOPUS CACHE or remember the folders' sizes in between sessions

To get something on GPSoftware's radar it's best to [contact them directly](http://www.gpsoft.com.au/Support.html) as they don't see everything posted to the forums.

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> Or at least, don't have Dopus calculate the size of folders in tabs that are not active, at the same time it calculates the folders' size in the active tab.

If you don't want the information to be ready the moment you switch to the tab, why calculate it automatically at all?

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> The same behaviour of Dopus is probably also the reason why Dopus can take as long as 20 seconds to simply delete a 10kb \*.txt file or something -- after this, Dopus unnecessarily seems to be re-calculating every directories' size that is in the same lister.

Does that happen all the time or just sometimes? It doesn't happen for me so I'm wondering if there's more to reproducing it. If it can be easily reproduced by other people then it should be fixable.

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