Re: Re:Win11 explorer bug?

On 12/9/24 21:33, Martin Rid wrote:

john larkin <JL@gct.com> Wrote in message:r

One of my guys said that File Explorer is lately crashing in weirdways. Now mine has started doing it.We share files with Dropbox, so maybe the bug is there.

 I know win 10 FE does not like searching network shares. Never
  been fixed.
 Cheers

Oh, if it's that, Linux suffers from that problem too.
The trouble is that GUI file explorers want to know
everything about a file, even remote ones, and even when
it isn't actually required to show any of it. It will
even download the whole file *contents* just to make tiny
little icons! What a waste!
All that data is costly to get. As a result it takes
forever. Meanwhile, it won't respond to user clicks, so
effectively it's hung.
Very poor software design, but there you have it.
Fortunately, in Linux we have 'ls' which is smarter.
Jeroen Belleman