[Maya] SendTo menuItems causing significant lag to File Menu

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Essentially its taking 30+ seconds to build the File menu - I’ve tracked it down to the buildSendToSubMenus.mel.
Current workaround is to edit buildSendToSubMenus.mel to not load OneClick (and not perform the subsequent app checks) if its not already loaded - so I can at least disable it (never use SendTo anyway).

I have Motionbuilder 2013.
This appears to have happened overnight - anyone else encountered this?

Cheers,
Lee

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Those kinds of delays usually mean something is trying to talk to a network asset and can’t find it. Is there anything on that menu that’s polling a remote server, for updates or similar?

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I’ve also seen the file menus slow down due to Antivirus hits on file access. Once we white listed .max, .ma, .mb, .fbx files most of this stalling went away. Pro-tip!

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Thanks for the replies.

@Theodox - Nothing other than the “Send To” menu should be attempting to talk to anything. By disabling it, I no longer get the lag and as I’ve not installed anything related of of late, I’m unsure why the lag is occurring all of a sudden anyway?

@Randall - That’s surprising - I can’t think of anything on a default file menu that requires any form of file access bar the “Send To” menu. I’ll check this out - I suppose its possible the OneClick plugin is having difficulty with file access to determine valid installs?

Cheers!

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[QUOTE=ldunham1;29019]Thanks for the replies.

@Theodox - Nothing other than the “Send To” menu should be attempting to talk to anything. By disabling it, I no longer get the lag and as I’ve not installed anything related of of late, I’m unsure why the lag is occurring all of a sudden anyway?

@Randall - That’s surprising - I can’t think of anything on a default file menu that requires any form of file access bar the “Send To” menu. I’ll check this out - I suppose its possible the OneClick plugin is having difficulty with file access to determine valid installs?

Cheers![/QUOTE]

I can’t say that it is specifically accessing files directly but something in the menu system does a query and some Antivirus applications have to intercept file access queries and this is what causes a stall.