Thanks for you feedback.

precisonline wrote:

Has there been a change to the Esc logic when loading that list; seems like it works a lot better now.

Only for uncommon SFTP servers: https://winscp.net/tracker/1883

This will work just fine, thank you. Has there been a change to the Esc logic when loading that list; seems like it works a lot better now.

I didn't want to pollute the window with additional information, most users do not care about. So the path displays only in a tooltip over the "Reading remote directory" message.
https://winscp.net/tracker/1916

I'm sending you an email with a development version of WinSCP to the address you have used to register on this forum.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll think about it.

Would it be possible to add a display of the directory path being read when "Reading remote directory" is happening during the login to a site? With the "use last directory" feature, I often don't remember which directory I was in last and some of these are massive. If I saw that it was left in one of these massive directories, I would know to stop the connection and change the configuration.