last working folder history in 2.0.0-beta6 causes issues that did not occur 1.083.3 release

I've been using APP for about 20 months and have used it to process exposures from about 250 nights of imaging over that period of time.  Thanks for developing such a great product.  I recently upgraded from 1.083.3 to 2.0.0-beta6 and have been enjoying the new release but today encountered an issue that I never had with any previous release.

Using my win10 laptop with 2.0.0-beta6 I was working at home last night with files on my NAS that were on a mapped network drives (mapped to drive A:\).  Today I am working from another location without access to my home's local network and NAS and I clicked the set working folder button after launching APP and it took forever to load, like ~5-10 minutes maybe?  After that, I clicked the Lights button to load my lights files to process, and the same thing happened.  I noticed that APP now saves the last working folder in 2.0.0-beta6.  In 1.083.3 the working folder was initially always set C:\Users\Mike and I could easily change it to other locations and I never encountered the ~5-10 minutes to load issue when changing environments.

Is it possible to disable the saving of the working folder or last used folder ? If it is not, is it possible to improve the response time when trying to load the previous working folder that is no longer available due to change of environment?  I think the last-used folder history may also apply to lights/darks/etc file loading buttons as well, not just the working-folder button.

Thanks,
Mike