Slow navigation in the Open dialog
Here at work, we've just updated all of our Macs to OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion), the latest version as of this writing, from Snow Leopard. This has brought about a very unwanted change in Illustrator CS6's behavior.
Previously, whenever opening a file in Illustrator, navigating through a folder with hundreds of files by typing the first few letters of the file name we're after, it would take us quickly to that file. If it was slow to do so, then it was because the dialog was trying to generate a thumbnail preview of each file that we were hitting along the way. No big deal, since we could easily hit the down-arrow next to "Preview" so that the dialog would not try to generate a preview image for each file that was selected.
Now, however, the preview window takes up the rest of the Open dialog and it cannot be closed. For example, as we type the filename "test.ai" in a folder with hundreds of files in it, the selection would stop at the first file with the letter "t" as the first letter, take about five seconds to generate a preview of that file, then move on to the next file, which is the fist one that begins with "te"—stopping at it to generate a preview, of course—then on to "tes", etc. This means that it can take upwards of a good 15–20 seconds for the dialog to finally reach the file we need before we can finally hit <return> on it to open it up. Please note that this behavior is not present in InDesign CS6, however.
Is there any way to turn off this "previewing" of files that are highlighted in Illustrator CS6's Open dialog on Mountain Lion?
UPDATE: We have tried using each of the four different view options at the top of the Open dialog—Thumbnail, Details, List, etc.—with the same result. Even in the Detail view, which doesn't have a Preview pane, still takes several seconds to move from one file to the next as you're typing out the target filename. Any thoughts on what is causing this, then?
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Hi,
Is there any error message when you try to map network Drive manually? It would be better to provide more details about error message.
Generally speaking, this problem can be caused by Network Connection problem, please make sure your Client PC could access to Network Drive PC.
In addition, please check Network Drive PC security setting, if there is any firewall policy prevent this operation.
If still no use, please check Event Viewer if it identify this problem.
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There is no error. There is no connectivity problem. THe drives map automatically and always have. I can open up File Explorer and browse these drives all I want. I can open up Word and browse to these drives just fine.
However, when I open certain programs, and click File | Open, the mapped network drives just simply aren't there. I only see C and D and that's it.
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