UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Very slow to bring up the file selection windows when loading Lights, Flats,Darks ....
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us defaults.  99.9% of the time I use FIT files.  gets tiring selecting this each time I load files.
@bobw55 Hi Bob,
Are there chance any remote volumes on Windows that have not been mounted? That usually is the main reason for the file selector of APP to be slow.
Thanks, Wouter
I run an External USB 4TB HD that is always connected and a External USB memory stick that contains my image files.
@bobw55 That may be the issue then. External HDs are known to be slow though I wouldn't expect APP to have issues with that. Still, can you try opening the file choose dialog without those two external disks connected and see if that helps?
It is the addition of the USB 4TB external HD.
Never had this issue on previous full releases.
I hope this gets fixed and defaults settings are added.
@bobw55 We won't know if the external disks are the problem until you try and share the result with us here.Â
I just did see above
Things improved with the 4TB drive disconncected.  But this is where some of my calibration frames are stored.
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@bobw55 Sorry, I misunderstood. Thanks for trying this out. I will notify Mabula to see if he can investigate and fix this. What OS are you on?
Windows 11
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@bobw55 Thanks. This seems to be related to file chooser issues in JDK 17, which is used by APP 2.0.0-beta6, reported by others on this forum. Mabula and Vincent are investigating possible solutions.
Awesome.  Thank you for the reply.
I am happy to say that Beta 7 solves all my issues
Hi Bob @bobw55,
That is really awesome ! Thank you very much for your feedback 🙂 ! I am very glad that this delay with the file chooser on Windows 11 is fixed as well now.
Mabula
