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hey, I had that exact problem and it fixed it. you've made world that much happier. thanks.

Hey Thanx a lot!!! Preety

Thanks a lot. Worked perfectly. Seems like a very common problem.

It's a magic bullet - things get a whole lot easier when you know where to look.

Nothing like MOPM trying to reference a machine over a WAN EVERY time I was trying to view an image.

My saviour :-) I had opened a few pics to edit on a pc elsewhere on my home network, and when on my office network it seemed like someone had poured treacle into the gubbins if I wanted to use Picture manager. Sure enough, the cag file contained MRU entries for the home network locations that don't exist on the office network.

Why don't M$ tell people about this? Their KB sucks.

Thanks a million! This has been bothering me a lot and this helped immediately!

I get all the way to the OIScatalog.cag file but I cant open it.

Can anyone help ??

Opened with Notepad

Deleted bad mru paths.  

Works perfectly now.

Thanks

I'm having the same problem with Picture Manager being extremely slow if I have the computer connected to the Internet.  It's fine if I unplug it from the Internet.  I followed the instructions above and I can find the  OIScatalog.cag file anywhere on my harddrive.

Do you have any suggestions?

thanks in advance.

Thanks for the awesome tip!

Under Vista/O2K7, it's under:

C:\Users\<Profile>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OIS

excellent.worked perfectly.even much faster

Just goes to show that Microsoft really is the best software company in the world.

I can't find the Local Setting folder/directory under Document and Setting.

I have Window XP Media Center Edition.

Thanks for any help I can get.

Steve

Just Activate Show Hiden Files and Folderrs in the Folder Optios - Tab View

I edited the OIScatalog.cag file and saved it but the MRU links to the network folder kept reappearing in the .cag file. Strange... I deleted the OIScatalog.cag file and when the new .cag file was created by the program, again it contained MRU links to the network folder. Solution found was to delete files existing in the thumbnail folder. After that the network MRU links never appeared again and Picture Manager opening is very fast.

....in case anyone has similiar problem.

Thank you thank you thank you..... I was going nuts!!!

The specified folder only contains the Toolbars.dat file, and no such aforementioned file, and it is still slow.

It is slow on 2 diff computers... is it possible a recent hotfix within the past month have caused residual effects?

Add me to the list of happy customers.

Many thanks.

I finally found the OIScatalog.cag file in

Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\OIS

Win XP pro.......

Thanks A LLLot!

I deleted all the text in the OIScatalog.cag and it is working perfect now. Than you for this great tip. It opens now at the speed of light..

Great tip Thanks.

I had removed a computer from a domain and the previous path no longer existed. Rather than removing "mru path", which were all correct, I removed the incorrect "collection paths".

Thirty years in this business and I still come across new stuff all the time! many thanks for this - it's been driving me mad for two weeks!

Terry

I have tried everything to find this file!!!  i've pulled my hair out!  Any other way to resolve this issue besides uninstalling it?!!!!!  :-D

OMG!  I found it and it now works!!!!  Hallelujah!

WOWOWOWOWOWOW - Copied the .cag file first (and put in a folder) then looked it in Notepad. My next question was,  . . well which line do i get rid off?? Took a change (as i had a orginal back up - hidden away) and deleted the top line - WOWOWOWOW lighting fast now!! Does anyone have the same problem with 'My Pictures' from the Start button?  Thank you boys and girls XXXXX Kisses to all!

Oh superb - thank you!!

Spectacular! Rename the OIScatalog file first as a back-up. I deleted every MRU line other than where my pictures are normally stored.

Doesn't look like that fixes this Issue in Windows Vista.  It takes forever to open a jpg on a network resource.

Thank you!  Deleting that entire file just let me start from scratch.

Thank you very much

works excellent under vista, thanks....

This is the first no-nonsense answer and it works for once!

Thank you very kindly

Brilliant. Thank you so much. Unfortunately. I will have to edit this file every time I send photographs across my network, in case the target computer is turned off!

Thanks man!!!!! Perfect!

It opened right away!!!!!!!!!

Cheers!!!!!

Once can find "OIScatalog.cag" in C:\Documents and Settings\user-name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\OIS folder under Windows XP Professional.

Delete all "<mru path>" tags from the file and Picture Manager just files like anything..!!

But unfortunate thing is that everytime, you use a network path and disconnect the machine from the network, you have to edit the above file.

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An even quicker fix (on XP), just delete (or rename) the OIScatalog.cag file, no need to edit it as Picture Manager will recreate it next time it starts. Good Job :-)