Based on the current information, wouldn't it be smartest to ask the users which drive(s) they would like included in the search, or is it actually required that all disks be scanned?
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 14:55, Juan Lang juan.lang@gmail.com wrote:
Did you read the second paragraph of my original email? I'm not working around a bug in Wine, unless it's a bug that a user can map "/" to "C:" and call it a "fixed disk".
Yes, I read it. And scanning "/" shouldn't be a problem, unless you've also mapped network drives there. That seems to be the root of the problem.
Yes, that's the root of the problem. I can't prevent the end-user from mounting network drives -- in fact, in the expected installation environment, the average user will have several very large network drives mounted.
Under Windows, installation takes about five minutes, and the full-disk search provides a nicer user experience if they're upgrading from an ancient copy of the software. Under Wine, I need to either skip the full-disk search, or warn the user that it may take several hours.
-- Mark