Slow typing using SQL workspace

Question

I've noticed several people have reported similar problems when typing in the sql workspace the responsive is extremely slow, i've tried the recomendations posted on other messages but to no success.
What i noticed when i look at Help->About->Properties
there a couple that point to network drive which i'm guessing may be used to store temp data and maybe the cause of the problem (i've had similar issues with other applications picking up network drives for some working directories)
The properties in question:
ide.work.dir
ide.work.dir.base
user.home
Anyone know how i can change ide.work.dir and ide.work.dir.base to verify if they are the problem or know if they could potentially be the cause of the slow use of the editor.
thanks
Andrew

Answer 1

Strange it usually works fine for most of the properties, but in this case i guess the path is set somewhere else and cannot be overridden in a config file.
if a developer sees this thread and feels like helping, he may be able to look at the code and tell us how to change this, in the meantime, you can try to meddle with the windows properties themselves by creating a batch file and setting override properties there.
I tried to override the default HOMEPATH and USERPROFILE env variables with little success, but i'm short on time so maybe you can meddle a bit more and get it to work.
to create a batch file with overrides create a "test.bat" file in the SQL Developer install folder where the sqldeveloper.exe file is located and put in there something like:
set HOMEPATH=c:\temp
start sqldeveloper.exe