"initializing folders", how to edit network delay ?

Nope, just "Disconnect" it and get on with it.

HJ wrote:

A simple question regarding this: suppose a drive is mapped, and the machine
is no longer on the network through which the drive is normally accessed. How
long will Windows Explorer try to connect to the mapped drive before it gives
up? And is this timeout settable, e.g. in a registry key? If so, which one?

Thanks in advance,

HJ

"Andrew.Bath" wrote:


Hardly a good enough 'fix'. I have the same issues as the user above - work
and home mappings that I don't really want to continually mess with when
changing locations.
I originally encountered this problem on updating to Office 2007 but for
some reason it seemed to fix itself and I have not seen the message until
applying SP1 in the last day or so. Now it's back again and I'd really like
to fix it again.

[...]

"Tyson" wrote:

Hi, within Office 2007, whenever attempting to browse to open or save
attachments, etc, the "Initializing the root folders to display" window
appears and delays any browsing for a long period of time. From what I've
read in previous posts, this is due to an unavailable mapped drive. Deleting
the mapped drive is a poor solution, considering in this case it's probably
only available when a VPN is active and the user isn't going to want to
recreate the mapped drive letter everytime the VPN is initiated.

Where in the registry can I edit the timeout delay for this problem in
Office? If this is not possible, when will MS issue some solution to this
well-known hassle?

Thanks in advance,
Tyson.

I've been trying to figure a fix/workaround to this problem too.. Finally
found 1 that works for me, not sure if it will work for you or not.. took me
brainstorming a little and then figuring out that having the drive available
offline would probaly fix the initializing folders delay, since the drive
would be visible all the time.. I just created a placeholder txt file in the
drives that are not always online and then told windows to make it available
offline..since the file has nothing in it it is as close to a 0 bit file as
you can get(in fact windows reports it as 0 KB).. so synchronization will
take no time at all with it..

Hi All,

Bob, please don't bother replying as you obviously want us to work around
technology rather than technology work for us.

To everyone else, have you figured out a solution to this that is NOT what
the idiot Bob was suggesting??

Infinity, if you are still around, can you please clarify your solution a
bit more. I was a little confused how you got this to work.

THank you

Even idiot Bob knows how to look up "off-line files" in Windows Help.

Wildviper wrote:

Hi All,

Bob, please don't bother replying as you obviously want us to work around
technology rather than technology work for us.

To everyone else, have you figured out a solution to this that is NOT what
the idiot Bob was suggesting??

Infinity, if you are still around, can you please clarify your solution a
bit more. I was a little confused how you got this to work.

THank you

"Bob I" wrote:

Even idiot Bob knows how to look up "off-line files" in Windows Help.

Wildviper wrote:

Hi All,

Bob, please don't bother replying as you obviously want us to work around
technology rather than technology work for us.

To everyone else, have you figured out a solution to this that is NOT what
the idiot Bob was suggesting??

Infinity, if you are still around, can you please clarify your solution a
bit more. I was a little confused how you got this to work.

THank you

Hi,

First of all, let me hire 'Bob 1' to run around to 3.500 people who have
this problem also on stationary computers that only gets locked night over
(no rebooting, restarting or logging off), so network drives are connected
24/7/365 and those users also experience this issue.

2nd of all let's try to be constructive and kindly ask for a fix for this,
as I fail to see why Microsoft are intersted in people cursing over their
Office package. I asusme MS indeed wants to investigate this matter and
rectify it in a future patch.

3rd of all, I did indeed try to disconnect the drives at 10 of different
users and reconnecting and it does seems to work - 7 / 10 times. The rest
needed to reboot the computer. What's behind the idea of having an
application looking for a network ressource that is d/c or not for 30 secs -
10 minutes cant be right.

It is impossible to reconnect 3.500 people's network drives once a day if
not more. Despite how many scripts / batch files ect, you can make. Our
supporters, admins, developer's, users, CEOs ect. do have other things to do,
than to script us out of basic faults that can be fixed in a snap by the
vendor. Also take into consideration that the more scripts running when
logging on / off, while online ect.. the worse performance on already
stressed computers.

Hoping for a fix somehow regarding this issue in near future.

Thank you,
Per Christensen

I have the exact same issue. When is Microsoft going to come out with a
hotfix for Office 2007? It absolutely sucks that I have to wait. My Office
2003 NEVER did this, only Office 2007. Man, I regret upgrading, I mean,
down-grading from Office 2003 to Office 2007.

By the way, I have 3 mapped network drives and none of them are disconnected.

I am a .NET developer so I am technical. I am not sure of the solution you
are recommending. Can you please explain in details and steps? Thanks.

"Infinity" wrote:



"Tyson" wrote:

Hi, within Office 2007, whenever attempting to browse to open or save
attachments, etc, the "Initializing the root folders to display" window
appears and delays any browsing for a long period of time. From what I've
read in previous posts, this is due to an unavailable mapped drive. Deleting
the mapped drive is a poor solution, considering in this case it's probably
only available when a VPN is active and the user isn't going to want to
recreate the mapped drive letter everytime the VPN is initiated.

Where in the registry can I edit the timeout delay for this problem in
Office? If this is not possible, when will MS issue some solution to this
well-known hassle?

Thanks in advance,
Tyson.

I've been trying to figure a fix/workaround to this problem too.. Finally
found 1 that works for me, not sure if it will work for you or not.. took me
brainstorming a little and then figuring out that having the drive available
offline would probaly fix the initializing folders delay, since the drive
would be visible all the time.. I just created a placeholder txt file in the
drives that are not always online and then told windows to make it available
offline..since the file has nothing in it it is as close to a 0 bit file as
you can get(in fact windows reports it as 0 KB).. so synchronization will
take no time at all with it..

"That unavailable drive issue" is the same in Office 2003, so what ever
you are experiencing is not that.

ANdrew wrote:

I have the exact same issue. When is Microsoft going to come out with a
hotfix for Office 2007? It absolutely sucks that I have to wait. My Office
2003 NEVER did this, only Office 2007. Man, I regret upgrading, I mean,
down-grading from Office 2003 to Office 2007.

By the way, I have 3 mapped network drives and none of them are disconnected.

I am a .NET developer so I am technical. I am not sure of the solution you
are recommending. Can you please explain in details and steps? Thanks.

"Infinity" wrote:



"Tyson" wrote:


Hi, within Office 2007, whenever attempting to browse to open or save
attachments, etc, the "Initializing the root folders to display" window
appears and delays any browsing for a long period of time. From what I've
read in previous posts, this is due to an unavailable mapped drive. Deleting
the mapped drive is a poor solution, considering in this case it's probably
only available when a VPN is active and the user isn't going to want to
recreate the mapped drive letter everytime the VPN is initiated.

Where in the registry can I edit the timeout delay for this problem in
Office? If this is not possible, when will MS issue some solution to this
well-known hassle?

Thanks in advance,
Tyson.

I've been trying to figure a fix/workaround to this problem too.. Finally
found 1 that works for me, not sure if it will work for you or not.. took me
brainstorming a little and then figuring out that having the drive available
offline would probaly fix the initializing folders delay, since the drive
would be visible all the time.. I just created a placeholder txt file in the
drives that are not always online and then told windows to make it available
offline..since the file has nothing in it it is as close to a 0 bit file as
you can get(in fact windows reports it as 0 KB).. so synchronization will
take no time at all with it..

"DL" wrote in message
...
Since you are posting to another group,

He's not posting to another "group", he's posting in a web forum that
leaches off the MS news servers.

"sp00ky84" wrote in message
...

Yep Bob's attitude makes it easy to differentiate myself from the other
IT consultants out there.
This is a Microsoft bug as far as I am concerned and only with Office
2007. One should be able to have persistant mapped drives albeit them
disconnected.
Which is my there is a /p switch available when running the net use
command.


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