Bridge CS6 & network locations in Favourites

Hi everyone,
I use Bridge CS6 at home on my desktop 'production' computer, but I keep most of my files on an external hard-drive connected to my laptop (because of portability reasons etc.).
I just found out that when I add the network path to that external HDD, and then turn off the laptop/remove the HDD... Bridge becomes practically useless - as if on every mouse click (be it in the toolbar, right-clicking stuff, opening a folder...) there is some 'path availability check' that goes on, and this renders Bridge 'Not Responding...' for a brief period of time - about 60 seconds, which I guess is the timeout for the network. When the fav path is removed from favourites, everything becomes responsive once again.
...I just found it out today and don't quite know what to do with this information so I decided to post it here, it might help for those confused, maaaaybe it might even get a fix.
So, uh, here it is. Have a nice day.

Sounds like when you remove the drive and turn off the laptop Bridge is looking for it. After 60 seconds it give up. As you surmised you have to remove this path so it does not look for something that is not there anymore.

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