That option was off, strange, yet SE was freezing while that NFS issue was going on. My NFS issue is solved now and SE doesn't freeze anymore after nfs is fixed, so don't know why SE was trying to access files in that file system. I also have auto restore off for workspace and workspace files. The only auto-restore options I have on are "selective display", "projects tree" and "supported options per monitor configuration". Not sure it was one of those?