[Tortoisehg-discuss] TortoiseHg and unreachable Windows mapped drives causes Windows Explorer slowdown?

[Pierre Rouleau]

Peer Sommerlund wrote:
> 

>         Hi all,
> 
>         With TortoiseHg 0.3 under Windows XP, Windows Explorer is responding
>         very slowly when my computer is disconnected from the remote network
>         drives that contain Mercurial repositories that were the parents of
>         Mercurial repositories I have in my computer local drive.
> 
> 
> Oops, I think I was a little to fast to reply here.
> 
> Are you trying to view repositories on local drives or on remote drives?
> 
> There is no connection between the two, so viewing speed of local repos 
> should be independent of wether you are disconnected or not.
> 
> 
> Peer
> 
>
Thanks for your reply, Peer.

I think I found the problem.  The PC I am using is a work laptop I just 
got and I realized hat IT placed my home directory on a network drive. 
Tortoise places its configuration information information on the home 
drive, which is then unreachable when the PC is not connected on the 
network.  So when I boot the PC, log in and open a Windows Explorer 
sesion, TortoiseHg must be trying o read its config files which are 
nreachale, causing the massive slowdown in the Explorer.  As soon as I 
get back to work Ill change my home drive to be positionned in a local 
disk to solve the problem.


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Pierre