08-14-2021, 12:27 AM
(08-13-2021, 11:47 PM)LagrangeL4 Wrote: Update: I left Gimp in a "not-responding" state after requesting "File-Open", came back a half-hour later, and the File-Open box was finally up! Just, it took about 2000 seconds to come up, which is 20,000 times longer than the 0.1 seconds (or so) it usually takes. But after that initial half-hour delay, all menu items work normally again for a half-hour or so. Then GIMP goes back into a "not-responding" state for another half-hour, then works normally for a half-hour again. Very weird. But at least I now have some things to try; thanks for the information.
This looks like the old "phantom diskette drive" problem. Usually when the file dialogs are very slow to open it is because Windows thinks a filesystem/drive is available when it it not. So, beside the phantom diskette drive (fixable with a change in the BIOS configuration) other potential culprits are network drives (including possibly cloud storage support).