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I'm having several external USB drives connected to my PC (which are not required for my work with PhpStorm) and I'm wondering: is it possible to exclude drives from the "open file or project" dialog?

The problem is, these drives are going into power saving mode (by switching off) after a certain amount of time; so when opening the dialog, it almost takes a minutes before I can select a project as the system needs to power them up first.

Any Idea?

LazyOne
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  • *"I'm wondering: is it possible to exclude drives from the "open file or project" dialog?"* There are no such options. What OS & IDE version do you use? Some workarounds are possible though. – LazyOne Aug 11 '22 at 08:48
  • Do you have an external hard drive or a USB Stick? Do they really consume that much power if turned ON? – S. Dre Aug 11 '22 at 08:49
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    I don't think there's a way to exclude a drive from *File | Open*. The new file chooser, however, doesn't list drives, so it might be a solution. Try enabling it at *Help | Find Action | Registry | ide.ui.new.file.chooser*. – Eugene Morozov Aug 11 '22 at 15:07

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