@dxotestit I am not sure exactly what you are experiencing.
Does this happen every time you submit an image from ‘File Explorer’ to PL8, which it sounds like from your description or only the first time? Are these new images to the database, do they have a DOP “in tow”?
You stated that that it was a problem many years ago and by the sounds of it you have changed hardware since then but did it work
- on PL7 or an earlier release that you owned?
- If you still have those earlier releases installed on the new machine do they behave as PL8 is behaving?
The reason I am asking those questions is because I, and other posters here, are not experiencing what you are.
When using ‘File Explorer’ to pass an image to DxPL the whole directory is loaded whereas from (e.g.) FastStone only a single image is loaded, as an ‘External selection’.
However you covered that in your statement
I have right mouse click issues with my 5900X (32GB + 3060) but having waited for the menu to finally appear
the load time was 44.433 seconds which is slow by many other peoples “standards” and improved upon in the repeat of the tests below. The image is on HDD, the Program and OS on C:\ (SATA SSD) and the DB and Cache on an NVME.
The whole directory was loaded and the selected image highlighted, confirming @George’s post above
I cleared the database but not the cache, isolated the image and DOP to a new directory and repeated the test and got a slightly more respectable time of 22.325 seconds.
I repeated the test on my 5600G(32GB + 2060) and got a time of 28.268 seconds. The data on the 5600G was updated yesterday so the image was loaded from the copy of the files used in the 5900X test, they are not on the same brand of HDD but both are 8TB 7200 rpm disks so that should make only a slight difference (if any).
On this machine the file is also on HDD (as stated), the program on SATA SSD and the DB and cache in the default locations on C:\ (SATA SSD).
So like others posting here I cannot reproduce your problem, fortunately for me but not much help to you so can you remember if anything was made clear as to the nature of the problem that was “fixed”?