Dijji
Windows explorer crashing when I enable simple
Hi, When I add meta using simple profile for PDF files then windows explorer has become very lagging and it is frequently crashing. But, when I remove it for PDF files then windows explorer is not crashing at all and working properly.
How can I fix this issue or is this issue being worked on? If latter, can you please let me know when you will release a fix?
I'm using windows 10, 64bit and filemeta 1.6.0.4.
As you seem to be aware, you are not the first to report this problem. Given its severity, I have put several days worth of work into it, but am none the wiser as to its cause, being unable to reproduce anything similar. So work on this is currently stalled.
May I ask a few questions to see if we are talking about the same thing? Is this a corporate installation of Windows? Is it Windows Enterprise? Do the problems occur when you open a folder containing PDF files? Or when you update a meta data property on a PDF file? Or a random times not obviously connected to either of these? If the latter, how frequently? Do you have any other PDF property handlers installed, or have you done so in the past?
One additional idea that I haven't previously tried. What happens if you uninstall File Meta, then reinstall it, but in the optional components page, say that you don't want the context menu. Does this make any difference?
Dijji
Dijji, Thanks for response. I can understand and I truly appreciate you for the tool and the effort. I'll try out your suggestions and see if that helps. Please see my responses below.
Is this a corporate installation of Windows? No.
Is it Windows Enterprise? Yes.
Do the problems occur when you open a folder containing PDF files? No. Appears to occur regardless.
Or when you update a meta data property on a PDF file? No. I don't have to update a meta data property for this problem to occur.
Or a random times not obviously connected to either of these? If the latter, how frequently? Not randomly but, constantly all the time everytime I open windows explorer. I removed it for pdf but, kept for other file types and explorer is not crashing anymore. Based on this I came to the conclusion that enabling for pdf likely causing explorer crash.
Do you have any other PDF property handlers installed, or have you done so in the past? No.