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I noticed this a few times... it can take 10-20s for my Win10 PC to open the downloads location from File Explorer. But other folders/drives open instantly as you'd expect.
I don't recall downloads being a special location - it's just a regular folder not a virtual location or anything, right?
What might cause this to occur?
Mr. Boy
Posted 2017-01-11T08:54:03.513
Reputation: 3 710
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This is a known 'issue', a Google research returns a lot of articles explaining how to get rid of this annoying behaviour.
To summarize :
Cause : Your Download folder might be optimized for Pictures items. Therefore, it tries to load thumbnails, which takes some time (rendering or so).
Solution : Configure your Download folder to be optimized for General items.
Excerpt of the source article :
For some reason, the “Downloads” folder likes to be categorized as a “Pictures” folder (I’m guessing because people store a lot of JPGs in it). The problem with this view is that it tries to generate thumbnails for all the files in this folder, even if they’re not pictures.
The fix is to ensure the folder settings for “Downloads” is optimized for “General items”. This should have an instant effect (the next time you add files to the folder since the thumbnails are otherwise cached anyway).
Ob1lan
Posted 2017-01-11T08:54:03.513
Reputation: 1 596
Just because it wasn't 100% obvious to me. To change this setting, right click on the folder, go to properties, customise, then change the Optimise drop down to "General items". – Cadab – 2017-01-24T10:08:13.483
please tell us if my proposed answer worked for you. If so, please mark it as anwser. – Ob1lan – 2017-01-14T16:33:33.183