[Sv1-devel] [ sv1-Bugs-3023751 ] Unavailable mounts cause beachballing, prevent File>Open etc

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Bugs item #3023751, was opened at 2010-07-01 11:02
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Status: Open
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>Priority: 9
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Submitted By: Dan Stowell (danstowell)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Unavailable mounts cause beachballing, prevent File>Open etc

Initial Comment:
On Mac 10.4.11 (both intel and ppc), SV 1.7.2, I have problems opening a file chooser (for example to open a new audio file or to Save-as a project), because choosing the menu option starts off something that tries to access network shares which may or may not be available (they certainly aren't mounted, and I don't think they're even in SV's recent files list). This causes beachballing (frozen GUI) for many minutes, before an error dialog appears and I can't proceed.

(I am able to open files by drag-and-drop.)


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Comment By: Dan Stowell (danstowell)
Date: 2010-07-14 16:41

Message:
On my own laptop I have an old alias (not a symlink, a mac-style alias) on
my desktop which points at an old server no longer existing. I hit this bug
again, so I trashed the alias and restarted SV, and now I can open a file
dialog fine.

It's possible that the issue could be worked around by setting
QFileDialog::setResolveSymlinks(false) on the Mac build. (I can't compile
sv on mac so I can't test this!) It would be a shame since I'm sure it's
nice usability to have symlinks work transparently.


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