XnView Software

Oh yes, it's my dialog, sorry... But it's the same component as tree view in the browser. Do you have the same delay in browser?

No. The difference is that the browser doesn't draw the full folder tree (nor does any application I know save for PowerDVD). "Save As" goes directly to the last ...

Really strange, i use the standard windows dialog box :-( Acdsee has his own dialog??

It has (at least ACDSee 7). You're NOT using the standard File Open/Save dialog (do a File->Save in your browser or favorite application). That dialog is instantaneous.

The only other application I know that ...

xnview wrote:50-80 sec for what? For the copy?

Just for drawing the HUGE file tree (several disks, many folders, folders with thousands of pics). And after drawing the tree a simple scroll takes seconds (my PC is not slow: P4@2.8GB, 1GB of RAM)

- when doing a copy/move for the first time, the drawing of the folder tree takes ages (in fact more than a minute). Ok, I have two full 250GB disks and access a few remote disks but XnView is the only software I know that works this way.

I have exactly the same problem. A single file copy/move ...