Submitted by WayneK on 2020/04/16 11:11
Why does InfoQube (or Windows) access external drives when it's not necessary?
 
I have a couple of extra hard drives mounted externally in a drive dock.  There are no active InfoQube files on these drives nor do I have any backups set to go to these drives.
 
Yet when I carry out various InfoQube actions, like turning off a hoist, one of these drives is being activated and it grinds and grinds like it's looking for something.  The InfoQube action is delayed while this is happening, so the whole thing slows down my InfoQube work.  Each time I have to wait while the drive comes out of resting mode and searches for some nonexistent something.
 
I do have some InfoQube files on the drives which I've manually moved there for extra backups.  But there is no way for InfoQube to "know" that the files are there and I never use them in InfoQube.
 
Any idea what is going on?  Very annoying as it slows down my work and is putting unnecessary strain on the drives.  Is there some setting in InfoQube that would cause this or is this some kind of Windows thing?
 
Wayne
Win 7 pro, 64 bit

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Hi Wayne,
 
IQ is not looking into drives that it isn't supposed to, so it must be either:
  1. Tools > Options > This Database > Data Storage
  2. Tools > Options > Doc pane
  3. Access to items pointing to those drives (filepath, url, doc paths)
  4. Options.ini file in your IQ user folder
  5. Windows / Jet drivers are installed on an external drive
  6. The only thing other than this I can think of is the recent file list (File > list at the bottom). Check if an entry points to an external drive
Starting from a fresh portable install and a fresh sample file, see if it still accesses those drives
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

WayneK

2020/04/16 12:30

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Thanks for the suggestions. 
 
Negative on all 6.  I have never used this drive for any active InfoQube work.
 
I did manually copy my entire InfoQube folder to it, including the .SNDB folders, ini files etc.  But there is no way for InfoQube to know the files are there as I have never used the files for anything, I don't believe.  All my files, links, backups etc are on my internal drives.
 
I suspect it's not Windows because it doesn't do in any other program.
 
I can't think of anything I've done that would point InfoQube there.  It doesn't happen all the time and I can't reproduce it on demand (just did several hoists/unhoists and nothing happened).
 
I'll try the portable installation.
 
Wayne