Loader takes 13 seconds to bring up file picker

I have installed Fusion and began playing with it. Love the power of the nodes. I'm a 3D artist but playing around with compositing now!

My question is wether it is normal for the loader or any file picker to take over 10 seconds (usually 13 for me) to show up? If I select a loader or saver the BROWSE for file dialog takes extremly long in my opinion.

Could this be a limitation of the FREE version? I have only one network drive on a gigabit connection.

Thanks for any feedback. I did not see any options in the preferences related to such things....

no one has any thoughts on why this is happening? I'm guessing that it doesn't happen to those who have viewed the thread...

it seems not right to take that long and is not a restriction of the free version

you didnt mention which OS your using, maybe its a problem with the attached network drive or maybe a USB drive which is in sleep mode?


there was another thread with a similar problem (which i cant find right now) but there was also no proven solution

it seems not right to take that long and is not a restriction of the free version

you didnt mention which OS your using, maybe its a problem with the attached network drive or maybe a USB drive which is in sleep mode?


there was another thread with a similar problem (which i cant find right now) but there was also no proven solution

I will look around for the other thread as well.

I'm using Windows 10. I don't think it would be a sleeping drive, as it happens every single time anything in Fusion wants to look at a file picker. Loader, Saver, Browser etc... I can repeat every time, reboot, fresh start etc..etc...

Something's up...because I didn't think that would be a good thing with others! Good to hear it's not an annoyance of the free version.

Thanks for the comment and hope that there is a fix.

If it is a broken volume it would time out every time.

Thanks for the help everyone. I installed on another computer and it indeed did not have the issue. So I knew to dig in a bit more on the troublesome one.

The topic of drives made me look deeper. Turns out I had a Floppy drive in explorer, but I do not have a floppy disc. So I disabled that device in Device Manager and all is well! Just like mentioned....Fusion was waiting on Windows to time out from that device.

Thanks everyone! Now I can continue to learn with Fusion.

Start Fusion with the "Run as administrator" command. I experienced the same issue. This solved it.