When opening the file in Microsoft Office (ms-word, Ms Excel, etc) and click on the drop down menu list on My Computer I get the message "Initializing the root folders to Display"
this causes slow access when browsing to the file and we have to wait the Initializing the root folder until its finish.
How to fix this error ?
The simple tips to fix this Error is:
Go to My Computer and check if There is a problem with one of your mapped network drives. At least one of them is either disconnected or awaiting credentials. you can solve the problem with disconnected and connected the network drive
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This isn't a fix...it's a work around! Network drives will always be mapped via a logon script of some sort. For a true fix one would not need to repeat the "disconnect" fix!
ReplyDeletea better workaround that I have found is to click on the shortcut on the left side, such as "my computer" and then browse to the desired folder through the center menu list. This avoids the "drop down" list, and also seems to avoide the problem. Again, this is a workaround, not THE FIX, we are all looking for.
ReplyDeleteJW
I had a colleague come to me with the same problem. The solution we found was to NOT use the drop down menu list but to use the links on the left hand side of the pane. (i.e. "my recent documents", "desktop", "my documents", etc.).
ReplyDeleteThis seems to work as the message doesn't appear.
One of the colleges with me office was facing this problem and this work-around is nice in dealing with this problem.
ReplyDeleteThe best solution seems to be to switch to an "Office" package from another company.
ReplyDeleteNeeding to unmap unavailable mapper networks drives is a kludge to deal with the fact that Microsoft is using a faulty algorithm.
ReplyDeleteBTW: Always make sure all of the disk on the system are not allowed to be indexed. A huge amount of laggard behavior in Windows is due to it's default of wanting to Index drives. To turn off Indexing, right click the drive, select Properties, and uncheck the "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk..." box at the bottom.