Adding project file by drag & drop does not update import_folder xml element

[Robin Clarke]

Every time I start up OpenShot it seems to do a non-trivial scan of my filesystem. I notice it because I have NTFS shares from another server mounted on my desktop, and the first time I start OpenShot it causes the disks on the server (in the same room) to spin-up. As this is a costly operation (scanning network servers with spun-down drives takes a few seconds!), I was wondering if it would be possible to not do such an invasive scan every time the application starts.

[Robin Clarke (irreire)]

OS: LXDE with kernel 3.0.0-15-generic
Installation: Synaptik package manager
OpenShot version: 1.4.0

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

OpenShot does not intentionally do a scan of your file system. Maybe you can run OpenShot from the terminal and see where the scan occurs in relation to the terminal output.

[Robin Clarke (irreire)]

Could it be that it accesses the path defined in the configuration element "import_folder"?
The first time I used it I used the "import Files..." dialogue, and imported files from an NFS mounted partition, which seems to have got that value set in the config.xml, and since then I have used the drag'n'drop functionality, but looking at the config.xml it seems the value wasn't changed.
I just created a new project and used the "import Files..." dialogue to set the location stored in the config to a local path, and now openshot starts fast again.

Assuming this is the root cause of the behaviour, suggested solutions:
1. Don't access the path defined in import_folder until "Import Files..." is clicked
2. Store the path from which a file was imported in the import_folder element even if it's added by drag'n'drop.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

It only looks for the import folder when opening the Import Files dialog.

It looks for the config.xml config file at startup (it looks for this within your home folder, ~/.openshot to be precise), plus there are some checks that certain folders exist (such as /usr/share/openshot), but I wouldn't have thought that would be enough to cause python to fully scan the file system.

[moimael (moimael)]

So what's the best solution for you ? Solution 1 or 2 ? I think the 2 is the best one but not sure.

[Robin Clarke (irreire)]

2. would work for me.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

I've added a fix for this to the trunk. Now the import folder setting is updated if a file is dropped into OpenShot.