[doveman2]

Obvious reasons for a slow directory to open:
* Hard disk has spun down. Is it faster to open the folder a second time soon after?
* Very large number of files (how many files in the directory?)
* Presence of archives. Kodi will open every archive (rar/zip etc) it sees which for large archives with many files in can be very slow.

None of those apply here. I'm just accessing the folders on the SD card and even opening the empty Update folder takes ages. Having said that, I just tested and all the folders opened quickly but that's not normal, so perhaps it's connected to how long the system's been up or maybe something was fixed in the latest build, as it's the first time I've tried since updating to that.