https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/PickFile-Projects-and-Network-Drives/m-p/723551#M90560 <P>Did you notice that PickFile looks different when it's opened from within a project?</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="hogi_0-1707519745060.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.jmp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/61027iAD108BE713E631B6/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="hogi_0-1707519745060.png" alt="hogi_0-1707519745060.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>More than that - when Pick File is opened from a project, with mydir pointing to a network drive with thousands of files, Jmp will freeze for dozens of seconds:</P><PRE><CODE class=" language-jsl">mydir= "\\computername\directory"; Pickfile("select a file" , mydir)</CODE></PRE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So, if you work in a project, to prevent Jmp from freezing, please be sure that your initial directory is no network drive with many files:</P><PRE><CODE class=" language-jsl">If(not(is empty(This Project()) ), mydir = "$SAMPLE_DATA");</CODE></PRE><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:14:33 GMT hogi 2024-03-15T10:14:33Z https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/PickFile-Projects-and-Network-Drives/m-p/723551#M90560 <P>Did you notice that PickFile looks different when it's opened from within a project?</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="hogi_0-1707519745060.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.jmp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/61027iAD108BE713E631B6/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="hogi_0-1707519745060.png" alt="hogi_0-1707519745060.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>More than that - when Pick File is opened from a project, with mydir pointing to a network drive with thousands of files, Jmp will freeze for dozens of seconds:</P><PRE><CODE class=" language-jsl">mydir= "\\computername\directory"; Pickfile("select a file" , mydir)</CODE></PRE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So, if you work in a project, to prevent Jmp from freezing, please be sure that your initial directory is no network drive with many files:</P><PRE><CODE class=" language-jsl">If(not(is empty(This Project()) ), mydir = "$SAMPLE_DATA");</CODE></PRE><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:14:33 GMT https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/PickFile-Projects-and-Network-Drives/m-p/723551#M90560 hogi 2024-03-15T10:14:33Z