uniform/time dictionary searched for in all time directories

All the IOdictionaries will be searched for in all previous time instances. This is fine for e.g. polyMesh files (points, faces, etc) but wrong for e.g. uniform/time. Also it is very expensive when there are lots of time directories.

Attached files add some debug printing to see when it is happening (e.g. with foamToEnsight) IOobject.Clog.foamToEnsight

Tagging in @mark

Mentioned in commit 25c3d76b2f43417690cb681dd78ab21be01293de

Mentioned in commit 152f97d2ef7b360d698e4acb3f9b466912953524

The behaviour for uniform/time is still unchanged. A general change of the filePath virtual method to take an argument, or something else with a larger API change, seems to be required. Can nonetheless use it for typeHeaderOk and direct use of typeFilePath.

• Removed the workaround checks from foamToEnsight etc.

• do you want to make uniform/time a special dictionary type which does not do any searching?
• or have the searching flag a property of all regIOobjects?

I think that a search flag property for all regIOobjects probably makes more sense, but I think this also needs more consideration (ie, after the next release).

Hi @mark ,

Could you please note if this issue is resolved, if possible, considering your set of commits?

Many thanks.

please reopen the ticket if it remains relevant.

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