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Broken desktop links can cause significant slowdown when opening File explorer windows #1922

Open serpens24 opened 9 months ago

serpens24 commented 9 months ago

Prerequisites

Description

In some circumstances (or types of borken links), all attempts to use Constellation file dialogs, such as "File->Open" and "File->Save As..."

Mutliple references to the Netbeans issue can be found, such as:

We have identified that deleting broken links from the desktop, either from "C:\Users\\Desktop" or "C:\Users\Public\Desktop" has resolved the issue. NOTE: the particular type of broken links that triggers the issue is not currently understood and needs to be investigated as well.

This ticket is raised to see if we can:

  1. identify the type of broken links that causes the issue to occur
  2. write some code to test for this scenario and warn the user

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Identify the types of broken links that trigger the issue

  2. Open Constellation and create a new graph

  3. Select File->Save As... and attempt to navigate through the file system.

Behaviour

Expected behaviour: No noticable slowdown

Actual behaviour: File dialogs can take 30 seconds or more to navigate

Reproduces how often: Dependant on type of broken links

Additional Information

N/A

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