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How come sometimes my network drives (on NT4) will not automatically refresh?

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How come sometimes my network drives (on NT4) will not automatically refresh?

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A. 2xExplorer can automatically sense changes in the contents of its panes for nearly all drives attached to your system. As you understand, “nearly all” means that in some cases it goes deaf, as in the network drives connected to a NT machine. Here the situation is similar to the older versions, i.e. 2xExplorer will properly auto-refresh such deaf panes if and only if the change originated from within the program (eg. copy/delete/etc.). That as usual won’t extend to some context menu actions; head scratching is expected for zip files creation and similar. This behaviour is for both pure network and mapped drives. It does not appear for network drives on 9x machines but not too many people go networking on such OSs, dinnit? The resolution here is to manually press to refresh some externally modified deaf pane. NOTE: doesn’t work in the tree pane; to force a refresh there you just need to collapse & re-expand the parent of the offending node.

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