"Discovering items".... yawn
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00:00 &Quot;Discovering Items&Quot;.... Yawn
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 7
I found a huge post with LOT'S of suggestions. It could be related to many things...
First step would be to boot into Safe mode and see if the behavior is still happening. If it isn't you know it isn't Windows related but some kind of system driver (e.g. your antivirus even though you have it disabled).
Other suggestions include thumbnails, file permissions, too many files in a folder, etc... just read through the thread and try some things:
ANSWER 2
Score 7
I've worked around this by moving large folders from the command-line (cmd.exe) instead:
c:\> move c:\stuff\big-folder c:\other-stuff\some-other-folder
This works very quickly for me for dirs under the same drive letter. Also, any explorer window displaying the source or destination dirs updates within a second after the command-line prompt returns.
When selecting and moving multiple items, I use dired-mode (under emacs) which works with similar speed when moving files/dirs within the same drive letter.
ANSWER 3
Score 7
I had that same extremely annoying problem, where deleting empty folder would block while "discovering items".
The moment when I killed TSVNCache.exe and/or TGitCache.exe discovering was done and I didn't have that problem anymore. So, not only all that Tortoise stuff asks you to reboot your PC with every update, it also screws explorer badly.
ANSWER 4
Score 4
In windows explorer go to Tools
Folder Options View Tab and check mark the first option "Always show icons, never thumbnails.
Will solve the problem. If you want to see thumbnails in the folders again, remove the check mark.
ANSWER 5
Score 2
I had a similar problem in Windows XP, mostly due to messing up Registry settings. It was so bad that I couldn't access any partition other than C:/ and without going to My Computer.
How I messed up the Registry:
- Gave full control permissions to SYSTEM for HKCR (HKEY_CURRENT_ROOT)
How I "restored" the Registry:
- Gave full control permissions to the "Local User" for HKCR.
... but I doubt you, as a regular user, would have messed up the Registry so bad for this to happen. However, it might be a possible cause.