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[@Morten K]
The speed of network drives is not under your control.
What is under your control is the awkwardness of requiring us to take so many steps to tell your program to browse to and scan a network drive.
Like Microsoft’s Windows File Explorer, it makes sense to be able to see a location tree on the left ( perhaps with it’s own address bar for our direct entry of locations to search, such as typing [ \\102.168.1.37 ] or [ \\Joanie ] for a computer that does not appear in Microsoft’s own networking listing ).
Then perhaps a collection of preferred / remembered / frequent locations that stay and refresh on display above that on the left ( instead of hidden in the options ).
Then on the right side, a search entry on top, and any search results below.
Like this:
______________________________________________________________________________________
Where to search: [ ][ Go ] _____________________ Search for or what: [ ][ Go ]
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Results of each [ Go ] underneath, one on the left, one on the right.
Your users at least fall into 2 categories:
— search for what, where?
or
— search where, for what?
Resulting in 2 completely different user expectations of how they will look for controls in your program user interface.
So, combine at least those 2 user groups rights on screen.
So far, your presentation does not differentiate your program much from the popular free Voidtools [ Everything ] search program, see:
https ://w ww. voidtools. com/support/everything/
Enjoy programming now ( later, it will be the marketing and then the finances that become the real challenge ! ).
Thanks for sharing your programming resources.
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PS — You need to install any support programs that you depend on, and the program should check that they are there when the program starts, and offer to reinstall the missing support resources automatically.
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