Windows 10 'refreshing' music folders every time they are opened

[LordX]

Hey all.

Every time I open a folder containing music files, Windows is doing some kind of check/refresh. The files slowly blank out one by one until it gets to the bottom of the list of files, then BAM they are all accessible. This takes a bit of time, and is completely frozen while doing it (I can't navigate back etc).

Is there a way to disable this behavior?

 

[britechguy]

What, if anything, is showing in the status bar area at the lower right corner of the window frame when this is occurring?

 

[LordX]

Is has the two little boxes, one for details, and one for thumbnails. I have all my windows set to the Detail mode for a nice file list.

 

[LordX]

I checked my indexing settings - and sure enough, the drive where the music files are was NOT indexed. I just added the drive and will test it out in the coming days.

 

[britechguy]

Let us know, but I still haven't figured out how indexing, or the lack thereof, would produce the behavior you initially described.

I just can't find the setting(s) that I remember for having Windows, or I thought it was Windows, fetch missing metadata for the Music Library.

 

[frase]

Yes this happens when a mapped drive is no longer mapped - it tries to find the files to "index them". It will display the green search bar of eternity - which never ends.

Delete the said mapped drive and you will be fine - then remap if sharing.

 

[Porthos]

Is the drive an internal regular drive (Non-SSD) or an external USB Drive?

 

[HCHTech]

Also, I seem to remember some bug with thumbnails... Can't remember details, sadly.

 

[LordX]

Is the drive an internal regular drive (Non-SSD) or an external USB Drive?

Regular HDD for media storage. This is only happening with MUSIC folders. No other folder behaves this way. Even the full index update did not resolve this.

 

[Philippe]

I just can't find the setting(s) that I remember for having Windows, or I thought it was Windows, fetch missing metadata for the Music Library.

It is / was in Windows Media Player IIRC.

 

[britechguy]

It is / was in Windows Media Player IIRC.

That one I'm aware of, but it should not come into play except when Windows Media Player is in use. I still use WMP, and I never have the behavior described if I'm just browsing around in my Music library or a staging folder where I rip albums prior to running the tracks through MP3Gain.

 

[LordX]

I did read something about deleting the BAGS and BagsMRU folders in the registry... wondering if there is any opinion on that?

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags

 

[frase]

So you don't have any drives mapped anywhere on the system?

 

[LordX]

So you don't have any drives mapped anywhere on the system?

No

 

[HCHTech]

What other audio software do you have installed? It might not be Windows itself. You can also use process explorer to find out what is taking resources when you open/browse that directory. Anything in the event logs?

 

[mattsnoddy]

If you go into the Properties for the Music folder and change to something else like Documents, does that affect the behavior?

 

[LordX]

Resetting the folder to document style would likely help, since it is only happening on music folders. I deleted the Bag and BagMRU folders in the registry, and it SEEMS like it is helping so far. We will see.

 

[Blues]

I get this behavior with my video files which are on a mapped drive as they are on me NAS