Code::Blocks scans filesystem on file open

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It has always been the case that the code::blocks process would begin to scan my entire filesystem every time i open a file in it. This process would use 100% disk usage for around 5 minutes in which my system is unusable. I use procmon to make sure that it is indeed the case. Never understood why. Anybody has any idea on what could cause this behavior?

[oBFusCATed]

What file do you open?
Can you reproduce this with a simple file without any includes in it?
Do you have a project opened?

[ohsnap]

What file do you open?
Can you reproduce this with a simple file without any includes in it?
Do you have a project opened?

Hi, thanks for replying.
I can reproduce it when i open .h and .c files both empty and non-empty but not with .txt files. No projects open.
This is the setup:
- windows 7 64bit
- in my \Desktop i have the folder containing the nosetup codeblocks 17.12mingw version
- create an empty .c file in the \Desktop near that folder
- open Process Monitor aka procmon
- fire up codeblocks by clicking its executable in that folder
- from CB open the above .c file. Both drag&drop and "open..." will do.
- witness procmon being flooded with filesystem activity as CB scans \Desktop and all its subfolders recursively
I have quite a bit of big folders in my desktop, mostly backups.
Because CB appears to only search inside \desktop i suspect that the logic is that CB will scan the subfolders starting from the folder in which the .c file resides.

[stahta01]

Sounds like it could be code-completion related.
Can you turn off the code-completion plugin and see if the file activity goes away after doing that.
That way the CB Devs only needs to work on code checks in code-completion plugin or skip looking at that possible cause.

Edit: Most of current active devs are [primarily] Linux devs.

Tim S.

[ohsnap]

Sounds like it could be code-completion related.
Can you turn off the code-completion plugin and see if the file activity goes away after doing that.
That way the CB Devs only needs to work on code checks in code-completion plugin or skip looking at that possible cause.

Edit: Most of current active devs are [primarily] Linux devs.

Tim S.

Turning off code completion unser settings->editor... and restarting did not make a difference

[oBFusCATed]

What other plugins do you have enabled?
Can you gather a backtrace somehow?

[ollydbg]

Turning off code completion unser settings->editor... and restarting did not make a difference

This is not the correct way you "disable" the Code Completion plugin.

The correct way is: Menu->Plugins->Manage plugins.

Code Completion plugin has an option to scan the folders for files, which will prompts when you enter the

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#include " <--------------------------prompt files here


You can disable this option in the "Enable header code completion" in Menu->Settings->Editor->CodeCompletion setting dialog.

[ohsnap]

The correct way is: Menu->Plugins->Manage plugins.

Disabling the plugin manually solved the problem, good call! Could not to find any other combination of settings that would do it. Thanks everybody for the prompt response.